Entire Engine Bay clean up!! Help!!!!

[dunc1n1101]

hi folks,

 

Ive had my zed for about 3 weeks now and ive got a bit of time off from work so i want to spruce up the car a bit.

First thing i want to do is give whole engine bay a major clean up BUT Im not really sure where to start. Ive looked through a couple of the tpoics and ive got a rough idea of holw to get strted but there is a couple of things that i am still not sure aboout and im hoping you guys can help me.

 

1. One of the things that makes my engine bay look tired is a lot of my bolts are oxidized or rusty, is there a way to clean these up or am i best just replacing them? If i do replace them all, what type of coating should be on the new bolts that i buy to stop them rusting/oxidizing?

 

2. My bottles are filthy (the window washer bottle etc), and they are looking kinda yellow, how can i get these back to their original colour?

 

3. some other random steel bits are a bit rusty or oxidized (i.e The twisted metal bar that holds my pop charger to the engine bay). How can i get them back to being all clean and shiny?

 

4. My pop charger heat shield is a bit messy, i scrubbed it a little with WD40 but it took the gold colour off it. Is this a special cotaing that the heatshield requires? Or can i go ahead and scrub the whole thing removing ALL the gold colour coating?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated folks

 

Thanks in advance

Dunc1n

[dunc1n1101]

Anyone???????????????

[ilogikal1]

1. One of the things that makes my engine bay look tired is a lot of my bolts are oxidized or rusty, is there a way to clean these up or am i best just replacing them? If i do replace them all, what type of coating should be on the new bolts that i buy to stop them rusting/oxidizing?

 

It might be possible to tidy them up but it'll take forever if you're doing a few. It would be easiest to replace with anodized bolts in a colour of your choice.

 

2. My bottles are filthy (the window washer bottle etc), and they are looking kinda yellow, how can i get these back to their original colour?

 

Either fine (1200 or so) wet and dry or paint them in a colour that matches/contrasts the pretty new bolts you've just bought.

 

3. some other random steel bits are a bit rusty or oxidized (i.e The twisted metal bar that holds my pop charger to the engine bay). How can i get them back to being all clean and shiny?

 

Metal polish, fine steel wool and some elbow grease. Or a machine polish if you have one.

 

4. My pop charger heat shield is a bit messy, i scrubbed it a little with WD40 but it took the gold colour off it. Is this a special cotaing that the heatshield requires? Or can i go ahead and scrub the whole thing removing ALL the gold colour coating?

 

I could hazard a guess at that one but it'd only be a guess, so I'll leave that one to someone who knows better than I.