Right stuff to clean garage floor - heavy oil.

(Crosses Fingers...)

The first time it did this to me it got REAL hot, on the highway. There was a BIG cloud of smoke and then I pulled over and shut it down. At first I thought BHG, but then realized the cloud of Blue smoke was on the Passenger's side of the car! The only thing I can think is that somehow pressure built up and it blew some oil onto the exhaust somewhere.

I pay a LOT more attention to the Temp guage now.

That one time there was bubbling in the Overflow bottle, but it was HOT! It was almost up to the red mark by the time I was finally able to pull over, and I attributed it to boiling coolant.

Since then I have kept a watchful eye on it; there is no oil slick in the coolant, and no white puke in the oil! I check and fill the oil almost religiously (even moreso now...) and haven't seen any of that white gunk yet. It doesn't drink coolant at all.

I am going to replace the springs, and shocks, and while it's in the shop I am going to see about replacing the plugs and oil pressure sender, and see about having the head retorqued...

Hopefully I'll get two more years out of it...

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Understatement of the year!

I've seen some commercial-grade orange-based (terpenes) degreasers that will do a pretty good job on oil and grease. It even cleaned a half-combusted diesel/motor oil mixture out of my clothes (from a Delmag diesel hammer). I think the cleaner was Interstate brand, but I'm sure there are others too.

I suppose you could also stop by your local auto repair shop and ask what they use.

That reminds me of a problem I had in the past...

There are big oil galley plugs that are inline with the spark plugs. The one that has the heater hose bracket on it came loose on mine and caused a oil and vacuum leak. The oil would run down the bell housing and drip right on the exhaust.

There are also a bunch of vacuum (egr, intake, steering...) and coolant hoses hiding under the intake plenum that you can only see from under the car. Problems from bad hoses there are easy to miss.

Dan

Here is a real mad dog method. hahahaha

Mix a bag of cement (not concreate mix) to a thin watery solution with gasoline. Pour it on the concreate and sweep it around with a push broom until its thick enough to be solid.

Cuts the grease, fills pours and small cracks in one shot. Plus you end up with a

BTW: I think the cost for HazMat is about $5,000 just to show up....