Had a little mishap and now there’s oil on top of the intake manifold. Is it ok if I cover the fuse box, intake, and then with the garden hose, spray down angled over the intake manifold to get rid of all the oil that got on top?

 

Id use brake clean and blue shop towels

 

I'd never use water hose under the hood on an evo. I use a spray bottle of metho

 

i just figured it would be hard to reach with brake cleaner. I’ve had the engine bay steam cleaned before with no problems but hose is obviously different

 

Simple Green, gloves & brush, lightly rinse w/water

 

water aint going to hurt anything back there.

 

yeah just hosing it off it is fine

 

I can understand being adverse to spraying the engine but its really no problem. I just spray things down with megs heavy duty APC and let sit for a few min then spray off. An electric pressure washer can be nice for this since they put out more pressure than volume and hit the spots hard to reach.

I do it frequently to keep things clean so if I need to work on it or track down a leak I'm not fighting grime.

 

careful with the pressure washer and the firewall 'cloth'. I use my tire sprayers for quick/spot washes. I have one for degreasing

 

yea... lets be careful with a pressure washer in the engine compartment.
i would recommend just a hose.

high pressure water will get alot more places then just a water hose with a sprayer handle.

 

I high pressure up close, sure. But an electric pressure washer back 2ft is less actual pressure to ingress into connectors. Its pretty much a mist stream at that distance.

 

I pressure wash more for the air/mist as well, just enough to blow off ziptie tails etc then some leaf blower lol clean and dry is a good time to inspect stuff

 

Thanks guys all clean back there now just using a mist function on my pressure washer

 

For future reference, I also warm the engine up first to help water evaporate quicker off stuff.