Intake Manifold Carbon Removal - Heisenberg Hack / S4-Ep30
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2023
- In this episode, we clean the intake manifolds of our Land Rover Diesel Engine. Christian uses a hack from a Mr. Heisenberg he found in the Internet. The method worked perfectly.
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Just remember never use any OH(hydroxide) on aluminium items, unless you want to dissolve the aluminium too. Oven cleaner too is very handy stuff to help with greasy removal. cheers from Australia! 😁
Oven cleaner could also come in useful for those times when you used a little too much bbq sauce on those exhaust manifold brisket sandwiches..😉
@@pwatom22 haha! I'll stop stressing about the bbq sauce I might drip whilst doing the manifold on the TD5 in the next week or so then! .. I have a lot of oven cleaner just in case.
Thanks for the heads up! Do you use oven cleaner by itself or do you add in laundry detergents too? Thank you!
I was just coming to type that. I found that out the hard way - even if you get it out before it dissolves it turns it a rather horrible black colour.
But these parts are aluminium items! Have tried this on a carburettor and it was affected.
Love the Halfords box 🇬🇧😂
Didn't know they had Halfords in Germany!!!🤔
What is that box used for? We got it from a subscriber send to us with a transfer box in it. I use it for cleaning engine parts since…. Christian
@@Vera_and_Christian Pretty sure they are just heavy duty storage boxes, Christian.
Halfords is the name of a company that sells car parts, accessories and bicycles here in the UK. It is very well known but I would never use them for LR parts. They do things like fit light bulbs and drive belts for you. This must be one of their store delivery boxes when they re- stock. They are not sold. Regards to you both , David
Sunday chemistry with professor Muth. Excellent job. When I used to clean car parts, I recycled a commercial dishwasher as it had a chemical rated pump and built-in heater. High pressure recirculating water helped clean gearboxes and heads
Brilliant as always. I was laughing so much, Christians humour is pin sharp! Never change its incredibly entertaining. Thank you guys
I'd recognize that red-and-clear plastic handled Sears Craftsman flathead screwdriver you used to punch the bolts out anywhere ... I've had two of them in my toolbox since I was a kid in the US, and over 50 years later still have them here in Germany. I'm certain I've used it 20% for actual screwdriving/removal, 80% everything else!
I have these since 1996. All still intact and rarely used as screw drivers. Christian
😂I thoroughly enjoyed that. It’s made my morning. Great entertainment filled with brilliant tips and tricks
The company I used to work for used a mixture of Simple Green and water, heated in a dip tank with agitation. It cleaned steel framing squares as well as aluminum ones very well. I also use Simple Green at home as a cleaner and degreaser. As a side note, Christian, I like your cool hat!
To add to the myriad recipes each individual user swears by, I used TCP. In Australia it's marketed as a general and pre-painting cleaner called Tricleanium Ultra, available at the hardware store. It was very very effective, i've also used it to strip paint off small parts by boiling in solution for a few minutes, no scraping or sanding required. BUT, it is nasty stuff. I didn't wear gloves because i'm an idiot and I basically had hands covered in paper cuts for a week.
The throttle flap also provides an area of low pressure behind it that sucks the exhaust gases into the intake stream. The O2 sensor will then look for the reduced oxygen content to confirm the EGR valve is operating correctly. If it doesn't see a change, it will store a DTC.
That manifold looks like aluminium, right? And did not dissolve....
Is that a manter of time?
The laundry detergent acts to soften the water and the surfactants bind to the oil residues allowing it to dissolve in the water. The sodium hydroxide acts like a turbocharger to the laundry detergent by raising the ph level but dont use this solution on anything with aluminum parts because it will attack and dissolve them.
Watching you guys always makes me laugh, it did a pretty damn good job at cleaning.
Come to think of it, Christian does look quite similar to Walter White 🤔
Great video as always and what an outstanding result 👌
To reduce the intake manifold oil residue have you considered a Mann+Hummel's Provent catch can in the pcv line? Many Landcruiser owners fit one to significantly reduce the oily residue being passed through the intercooler and intake manifold.
A what cruiser? But thanks for the heads up anyway.
@@murphy5267 dont be stupid!
There is nothing ever boring with you guys .
Sundays LR Time and a glass of wine makes me appreciate my LR3 everytime.
Awesome informative and hilarious episode !!!
Walter would be proud. 😊
I love this humor. Informative and entertaining. Cheers from Seattle
Love you guys. And Bunnings are open on Sundays Down-Under
And you can get a cheap sausage and bread too 🙂
Wonderful job, science and humour; as always!
Thanks.
I've just cleaned the aluminium intake of 27 years and 140000 miles, (250000 km) of my 300 TDI.
I used cheap £1 cans of oven cleaner, and it worked really well also.
Yes it can corroded the Aluminium, but it didn't and did a decent job, but not as good as your drain cleaner with circulating pump 👍
It was nice to see your episode again. I also buy one more new set, install the new one, and wash and replace the removed one periodically. See you next sunday!
Vera has great life advice, Keep your hose in 😉
Great tips as always. Looking forward to seeing the Disco back on the road.
Who’d have thought that the chap who came up with the principle of uncertainty for sub atomic particles developed a recipe for cleaning gunged up inlet manifolds.
Brilliant, love your dry humour. Keep on making entertaining videos. Gary
The perfect channel for a Sunday morning, great job you two🥰🥰🥰🥰
The way I understand it from high school chemistry, mixing Sodium Hydroxide (Drāno/lye oven cleaner) with Potassium Hydroxide (the soft soap) actually creates a light exothermic reaction which makes the former cut the grease better. You are entirely correct to keep cautioning throughout your video about how careful one has to be with eye and lung protection, and as you said later, start water first, caustic second to keep down any dust.
Thank you for your service!!! Haha, on a serious note, I love watching your channel and learning lots also!
Thank you, Christian. I will remember this for future reference.
I'm just wondering what to use on metal/aluminium manifold.
That was crazy clean! It certainly beats using a medea blaster or anything like that. Just a few household chemicals, a pump - even a cheap 12v bilge pump and a container and you have what you need.
Brilliant - Loving the comedy and innovation!
Sunday saved once again. Thank you guys!
ITS LR TIME😊😊😊 what a great cleaning hack.ive just changed the throttle body on my 2013 sdv6.i still have the old one,so iam going to clean it the christian way!!! Your parts must be cheaper in germany,the same parts here in ireland are twice your price.very entertaining video.see you guys next week😅😅😅
Thx you Professor Christian, it is just too funny I have exactly all the ingredients right down to the pump to perform this job, i just don't own a Discovery 3 and very few diesels ever came to Canadian shores, always the petrol engines sold here ,the Heisenberg Hack pretty awesome 👍
Just another great sunday morning coffee. Happy Trails.
Super entertaining and insightful as always
Great hack Christian, thanks for the info!
Those uk Halfords crates get everywhere, we have about 20 here in Australia. Essential LR repair equipment 😊
very good video , the hat was a great touch ,,walter !!
You guys make my Monday mornings. My wife no longer disapproves of my regular watching of your channel as she can see how entertaining (and informative) it is. I too have a 2006 TDV6 Disco 3. It has completed 180,000 miles and is still going strong - and I love it. FYI .... I took delivery of an Ineos Grenadier last week and love it but I cannot bring myself to sell the Disco. In fact, I would love it if you could do the same brilliant overhaul of my car as you are doing with Vera's. Any chance??
😅👍unfortunately not.🙋♀️
Good job Walt 😊
Love you guys great rebuild
That's an awesome trick, I'll be putting that one into the memory bank
I loved that thanks, it made my day. Now for the DPF clean.
Great video again and hilarious end about the car dept in your grocery store 😂😂😂😂
Wow! So good! I usually take the manifolds to the local DIY car wash as they have oil separators in the drains. I have stainless steel pot scrubber pads that I pull through the intake runners with wire, I have brushes, etc. And I do not get the intake 1/10th as clean as you guys just did.
The worst was, a few years ago when I did the injectors on my daughters Freelander 1 TD4 and took my usual trip to the car wash with the manifold, I lost control of the manifold (holding foot slipped) while shooting the pressure washer down the intakes after doing a bunch of scrubbing. A huge stream of very black water/detergent/soot/oil/disgusting poop shot back out of one of the intake runners and hit my more or less squarely in the face. I have NEVER been so disgustingly dirty in my entire life. I finished my cleaning (and even had to pressure wash the inside of the cleaning bay as I had covered the walls and ceiling with the same mess), took most of my clothes off, wiped my face with my t-shirt and drove home mostly naked. Luckily there was nobody else in the car wash when I was cleaning up. My wife did not know whether to laugh or cry when I got home... 8-o
I will DEFINITELY try this method the next time. :-))
@Benjamin-cd8vk WTEverlovingF?
Very informative Christian, it'll work not just on Land Rovers 👍
What fun you guys have in your garage! I wonder if putting the parts in the dishwasher with a handful of dishwasher tablets would work in the same fashion? They're caustic, and there's a pump and all the trimmings in there... I better try it in my brother's house, as he has a better dishwasher than me ;)
Thanks for all the laughs and all the things we learn along the way.
Yes, this may work at your brothers house. Put the sodium hydroxide in and wait 😂. Christian
It works😊
You’ll have. A better one than him afterwards
That Laundry detergent works so well, And In the words of Jesse Bruce Pinkman. You know its good because it’s blue b hatch”.
Thank you guys ❤
I didn’t recognise this as an LR Time vid without the normal yellow text thumbnail format! I skipped over it several times!
Great information thanks. A bit of farm hack for you diesel tank you can run diesel fuel through your pressure washer, I caught the dirty diesel and run it back through the pressure washer for a few hours to clean a tractor diesel tank that was dirty, I used a filter to get most of the junk out before it went back in the pressure washer. I kept all 🔥 away , works great .
You are a wealth of information you must come to Australia one day ❤
Before this decade is over…
Now that's a very handy hack
Thank you
LOL Sodium Hydroxide is the primary degreaser used in old Hot Tanks soaking type or jet wash, the laundry detergent is only being used as a wetting agent and buffer to the harsh base.
Love you're style good tip for decarbonization
known as Caustic soda. On higher performance engines such as VW or Audi the run away function is controlled by an anti studder valve.
Great video. Even school chemistry class teaches water first, caustic second.
I was a bad pupil. No interest in chemistry. Christian
maybe, but your an outstanding engineer.
THIS MAN KNOWS HIS LAND ROVERS AAAAAAAAAAAA
Very interesting video. On my diesel engine I but a can of BG244 in with the fuel about once or twice a tear (depending on milage - about every 5,000 miles) and it keeps the engine clean and running smoothly. 👍
You're deluding yourself. Nothing from the fuel tank ever enters the intake manifold of a direct injection engine, diesel or petrol. The burned BG244 in the exhaust gases can not ever stop exhaust gas mixing with oil mist in the intake and creating sludge.
Always informative and entertaining
Easy-Off oven cleaner, the good 3 minute version what comes in a yellow can (not the standard blue one), works extremely well too. But I don't know if it's available off the shelf in Europe. I've tried many of our off the shelf (US) drain cleaners before and maybe ours are too full of other chemicals (it's hard to find just plain 100% sodium hydroxide here) that don't play well with certain materials. Not sure what that's about, but the 3 minute Easy-Off is my at home go-to. I've managed to make pretty much unusable parts look brand new with it. Just putting that out there for anyone state-side looking for the same results and process Christian used who's unable to find an appropriate drain cleaner.. Almost everyone carries Easy-Off though
Thanks for the good tip from state side LR drivers. Christens hack would get us a visit from the local DEA Lack of Humor Agency. Easy OFF is a better alibi. Walter would be proud btw.
@@murphy5267 You're right, out DEA probably wouldn't laugh at the "I'm not dissolving a throttle body!" joke 🤣
Great video, unfortunately my wife uses tablets in our washing machine 😂
Excellent video thank you.
Excellent tip Christian this black stuff is among the nastiest stuff known to Man. I did my timing belt on my D4 last week and accidentally got some of this black stuff on the floor of the house, luckily brake cleaner brings it off. I was not popular for a couple of days.
Just found your channel.
Great video, it will be very useful in future.
With love I'd like to suggest getting a microphone on your collar ❤
Wieder Top Video.🎉und was ist,wenn die Luft zurück in die Butterfly Klappe drückt und in den Turbo Schlauch?
Chemistry is fun! Well done!
i have a friend who had a Disco4 3ltr , at the dealer they almost filled the motor with engine oil at a service with a auto cutoff fill nosel , but the bulk tank ran out o oil just before it was about to stop , so they connected a new bulk drum and then refilled the motor again , filling it with near twice as much oil , on restart the motor went into runaway untill it thru a conrod thru the engine block , (a landrover dealer) then they gave him a motor from a wrecker with less klms on it
I can't believe Christian used a Craftsman screw driver as a chisel.
Wait ... what? I always used my craftsmanship as chisels. You mean I can't?
So this thing is a screw driver? Did not know that. Will try it on a big slotted screw next time. Lol. Christian
@@Vera_and_Christian Well, a German made screw driver couldn't have survived the abuse to fix an LR3 ... maybe a Toyota ... Lol. Anyway, this was an interesting subject and I will try this to decarbonize my 2000 Buick ABS intake. To clean up the aluminum lower intake manifold, I used LA's Totally Awesome Degreaser at full strength. This product is also biodegradable and is currently my favorite all around product. But I'm sure the Heisenberg Hack can be used on aluminum as well with limits, though. It would be interesting to find out how it would loosen deposits on intake vales on DI systems? You'll have a guten Tag!
@@murphy5267 Well, everybody does since no other brand of screw driver can resist the abuse and true Craftsman screwdrivers have a live time guarantee. At least the used to have it. Not sure how it works these post-pandemic days.
Great hack. I used Ryan's outback discovery method and used oven cleaner and it was excellent 👍I couldn't believe how clogged it was😱
As a german Eingeborener I have to say that you imitate the german accent quite perfect!
Thanks !
we used to use sodium hydroxide ( lye ) to clean the 2 stroke MC exhausts
Brilliant! Mechanical genius and now chemical magician 😂
Great info. So I guess its not a good idea to put metalic parts into a Drano solution? Drano is commonly available in every supermarket in Australia BTW. As a side note the Simpson Desert trek runs east west not north south but we get the general idea.
Just FYI that NaOH - Sodium Hydroxide - is commonly known as Caustic Soda in English regions. It's a good traditional paint stripper as well as a drain cleaner.
A fish tank with circulating pump would be ideal !
Good afternoon professor 👨🏫 Muth lol 😆 Sunday afternoon for a school lesson on cleaning 🧼 the intake manifold on Vera’s LR 😊 Love the hat Christian 🤣
cleaning intake manifolds for BMW is indeed an important discussion, we got stuck with my wifes 120d in camps bay south africa, smoke billowing from under the bonnet and from underneath the car at the back because our intake manifold had literally combusted... burnt to a crisp. this was 1 year after BMW messed with the EGR setup. but they were good about it and repaired everything at no cost to me even though the vehicle was out of warranty. (i can be very persuasive) - this just for info as to why it is indeed very important to clean the intake setup. by the way, loved the walter white reference :)
A smartest way to clean stubborn dirts on the intake manifolds using basic household cleaning agents with an aid of garden submersible pump to create agitation. Great job again!
From what I saw when purging a clogged drain, warm water speeds up/improves the reaction.
Tutte manutenzioni davvero utili . Le metteremo in pratica sul nostro discovery3
Well I am a chemist and Australian so I watched your video with lots of OMG! through my fingers as I covered my face. Then watched as you put the Simpson desert a few thousand kilometres further east. Sodium Hydroxide (caustic soda) is great for breaking down grease and oil. Heat helps alot so the pump warming the liquid would have made a big difference I think. Glad it worked out well.
Just subed to your channel. Its very informative and amusing. I don't even have a Dico lol
Would be interesting to try this on the cylinder head inlet ports of direct injection petrol? Cut up a scrap manifold and modify it with two ports - bolt this adaptor to the head - ensuring that cylinder has closed valves! And flow through a drain cleaner concoction!
This channel is like a Haynes manual for Discovery's...only more entertaining.
Interesting article but I think I will stick with mineral turpentine for cleaning engine parts. If you find your inlets closed down with carbon you can also vacuum the soft carbon out with a 19mm plastic hose without too much trouble. Once the "Y" piece is off you can get a fair way down into the manifold. Use soft plastic hose and you cause any problems.
A large Sonic Cleaner Bath with a plastic liner could be a good method. My cleaning area has a soda blaster, parts washer and a used dish washer for rinsing 😁
Loved it 😂😂😂😂❤️❤️ I loook forward to your next video! Huge fan 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
At first I was uncertain but watching this excellent video took all the uncertainty away.
Heisenberg Rules, (probably)
The Muth's, you got to love them.
2 long cycles in the dishwasher deals with the throttle body. Especially if you remove the EGR injectors. Just do it when SWMBO is away.
Always a pleasure to learn with you. Is there a rule of thumb, after how many miles this service is due?
I would check every 100t km how the manifolds look inside. Usually they will not clog completely and require only little cleaning. Only a rebuild makes such a cleaning possible. Christian
@@Vera_and_Christian Thanks a lot. Heinz
I had an E46 M54 plastic manifold that was bad like this. I wish I would've seen this video a year ago.... I paid a machine shop to clean it and it was NOT as good as this video. Looking forward to my next time so I can used this method.
Hi Christian. Ich habe es mit Kaltreiniger gemacht und es hat auch funktioniert.Schönen Sonntag
Good video, i did this about 3 weeks ago n a major service, did it a little differently and didnt come up anywhere near as clean as yours.
Question, i deleted my EGR valves during that major service, (dont need them in Australia) but i left the butter fly valve in place, engine works fine, do you see an issue with leaving the butterfly valve in place at all, i would rather keep it in place to stop the runaway, mine is a 2007 lr3 2.7 v6
Not sure. Maybe use a diagnostic unit and display the actuator. If you see it move, you may want to remove it. If it never moves, keep it in place. Christian
I soaked my disco 2 td5 aluminium manifold in diesel over night and achieved a similar result and did not cut into my beer drinking time .
excellent idea... 👍👍👍
Fantastic hack
Fantastic 😮
I place the bucket on a running diesel bonnet for vibration
Thank you.
Thanks Heisenberg
I use dishwashing machine blocks cheapest ones with hot water works well on DPFs as well