Intercooler

[Annette]

Hi is there a quick way of cleaning the Intercooler?it's quite gunked up.is it easy to take off?don't forget I'm blond:lol

 

[panelbeater]

you might be blond but does not mean your dum lol x
i have never had to clean any of mine but brake cleaner works well

 

[macabethiel]

Blond is that like Blonde ?

Okay so spelling doesn't matter any more than a misplaced apostrophe ? lol

I have never cleaned an inter-cooler either but if the contaminant is mainly oil then I guess any suitable solvent would do the job as long as the solvent did not leave it's own residue.

 

[perelaar]

very easy to get off; you need to undo the 4 bolts holding it to the engine, and then the 2 jubilee clips that fix the IC onto the hoses.

Make sure you don't loose the rubber anti-vibration thingies on the bolts holding the IC, and don't drop anything in the 2 pipes once the IC is off. I tend to cover them with a plastic bag held in place by a rubber band.

To clean, I've used brake cleaner in the past, and also white spirit. Any solvent would do. Just let it drip out and dry before you reinstall it.

 

[Annette]

Thankyou:thumbs

 

[Davey Boy]

I've done this a few times on my trucks, and definitely a job worth doing.
The guys are right in saying that the intercooler and any hoses cleaned with brake cleaner must be bone dry before starting your vehicle.
Any residue can upset your turbo with a bang.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

I've done this a few times on my trucks, and definitely a job worth doing.
The guys are right in saying that the intercooler and any hoses cleaned with brake cleaner must be bone dry before starting your vehicle.
Any residue can upset your turbo with a bang.

Not saying you are wrong, and it's great advice either way, but just trying to get my mind round this, surely the chemicals can't upset the turbo, as it is blowing air through the Inter Cooler towards the engine, so it's more worry about what it could do to the engine?

 

[Davey Boy]

Thanks Clive, that should have read 'intake' not 'turbo'.
Thanks again and apologies to Annette for any confusion.
Davey

 

[solarman216]

any spirit reidue in the intercooler could wreckyour engine, it could only effect the turbo if the engine "runs away" as it will overspeed, I use a hot air gun to dry one out if spirit used, Rick

 

[Davey Boy]

I only do mine in the summer and leave it in the sun go a few hours...:thumbs