Has anyone here built / used / thought of a sacrificial bath to clean the intake manifold etc? I'm thinking it might save a bunch of time and cleaner etc.
Thank you for any thoughts / ideas or experience.

 

My idea of Sacrificial Bath is slightly different of what your thinking.




What the hell is Sacrificial Bath?

 

^^^ Yeah, please explain your definition of a "Sacrificial Bath" .
There are some folks who would like to emerge their entire TL into something like this.

 

@ Skirmish and 3.2TLc

 

rather than soak the parts in several gallons of expensive solvent,
in the ~retired bathtub~ you kept after the house next door remodeled
AND have to deal with all the solvent removal from said tub:

Take the parts to a machine shop who will dunk/soak and bead blast the thing inside and out till spotless
OR ck harbor freight tools for a real sized parts cleaner tank with pump, that will still need manual poking of the passage

note: solvent left uncovered quickly evaporates! be it a 5 gal can with no cap or a large tank area left without sealing cover/fire door on top

 

oh yeah- the FIRE danger of having a large surface area of exposed flammable material + Oxygen present in atmosphere + Source of IGNITION, that can be any spark!! = EXPLOSION and FIRE

 

Sorry guys, sacrificial bath meant an electrolyte soaking using a battery charger and some iron rods to remove rust etc. No chemicals involved, just some Arm and Hammer soda and water.
Sacrificial refers to the use of scrap metal on the positive side to attract the rust and dirt.

 

you need more than that to remove years of exhaust gas residue/carbon buildup from the egr system

either 3 cans carb cleaner and a wire coat hanger, 30 minutes manual labor at a casual pace, and pausing for refreshments~
or
the machine shop which has a real dunk tank like a 20 gallon barrel size-
Lower parts into solvent on a basket- to soften the crud we need gone, then they use a wire scraping tool to poke the passages, and sandblast to make it look new

If rust were our issue I would follow the OPs thought,,good for older car restorations

 

Yeah, the problem isn't so much rust as it is the carbon build-up.
Shamal's basic theory seems easy enough, but for all practical purposes.......the conventional proven methods are effective, even though the traditional stone age technology to some folks seems relatively time consuming.

 

There is NO rust. The intake is Aluminum.

The easiest and fastest way is a toothbrush/brass wire brush and some carb cleaner. Its really not that hard, nor does it take that long.

 

One can purchase a special tool- rod, just for reaming the passages with razor wire like action! Charge your neighboring ziner buddies to do theirs and recoup cost~

who knows the actual diameter of the passages? they make different size cleaner rods.
hmmm, I wonder what good ol harbor freight tools has for this lol