Piston Kleen, Removing carbon from pistons Options

[ThePaintedMan]

Nope, aluminum pistons, steel rings and steel sleeves as cylinders.
Aluminum cylinders do work, porsche uses them with a chrome (steel) coating.

So, the rust you see after a head gasket blowing out is not from the piston, it's from everything else.

That makes sense too. It was pretty bad, so hard to tell.

The T-Bird and earlier 5.0 'Stangs were definitely steel though.

On the OP's topic - that's cool stuff though! Not sure I'll need it anytime soon, but as long as it doesn't harm aluminum, sounds good to me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[David_S]

There used to be an old-timer around here that told me for years to throw the used pistons in a bucket of ice water and let them sit .... keep putting more ice in as needed !! I tried it once and it worked ok but not great !!

[DBCooper]

I think you need to check those engines. I'm personally familiar with the Chevy 235 six. Earlier I don't know, but in the 50's it had aluminum pistons, both truck and car. Same with the Fords. I've seen or done every Ford engine since the early 50's flatheads, and all had aluminum pistons. It's not important, I just thought the references to non-aluminum pistons odd since I've never seen any myself, wondered where they'd been used.

Best piston cleaner I've used was a carburetor dip tank, but lots of things work. Lots of soaking in ATF, Marvel Mystery Oil, acetone, or even plain old paint thinner and then lots of scraping. My kids say oven cleaner. I've never used it but it seems logical thinking about what I've seen on the bottom of bad ovens. And for cheap a broken piston ring to scrape the grooves.

[StratPlayer]

I've that piston kleen on a set of 94mm pistons, it did a great job on cleaning off the pistons. This was about 3 years when I used the product. I bought it to see how well it worked on cleaning pistons, did a good job.