Block cleaning

[1928Pickuppain]

Im currently doing a "cleaning" just finishing up after two weeks. I first filled my system with degreaser and ran that until hot and let cool and repeated about 5 times a day for 2 days. i drained it into a bucket and it came out black black black and slightly thick.

Then i filled the system with gasoline ran for 5 min until it started to get hot, boil (vapor lock) and let it cool for 35 min then repeat two more times. i drained it into clean white bucket it came out black black black and settled into some awfull stuff at the bottom. I repeated this one more time and got alot less black results but still dark grey. I then flushed the system back and forth and got large rust chunks and sandy bits out of both radiator and motor. Then i fulled with evapo-rusted leaving it overnight Starting it just to make sure it really pumped through the system. Again it came out black as night. flushed again with water till clear then ran gas again. Once again the gas came out black as all hell and then flushed with water until clear. I then ran Dawn Dish soap in there for about two hours as it ran in the drive. I flushed and got dark brown and small rust chunk. I then ran vinegar 2 quarts worth mixed with water as i drove the car around everywhere for two days. When i flushed it came out dark almost blackish crimson and with a slight viciousness to it. I flushed with water getting only small sandy flecks out and repeated the vinegar and driving for another 3 days. Today it flushed out still a crimson but a lighter brownish crimson. I flushed again. filled with gas, ran till hot, and left over night, in the AM i will drain and flush before filling it with a gallon of ammonia, a quart of hopps powder cleaner and a top it off with a gallon of water with about half a cup of dawn dish soap. I will let is sit for 20-30 min and this will strip the brass radiator of any scale, hard water residue or really ANYTHING, left on the brass radiator itself. (I use this method to clean clock movements after disassembly) it will strip them down even heavy oxidation to the point of pitting and after rinsing it will leave you with bright shiny almost polished looking brass. Then i will flush with water and fill with a 65/35 coolent mix.

I dont necessarily recommend the gas and ammonia all this if you have any nabors as they may kill you. I had my neighbor Jerry come over a few times to make sure i wasent going to blow up the neighborhood (and he puts up with alot of crap from his white house turning back every year form the soot from my stove pipe burning waist oil to compressors and small explosions going off at all hours of the night! Poor bastard but i know the ammonia and hopps will just about drive him from his house tomorrow HaHaHa