Just wondering if anyone ever cleaned a bell housing by putting it in a self cleaning oven and running it through a cycle? It just popped into my head as I was wiping out the oven after the self cleaning cycle. I've got a 216 bell housing going on a fresh 235 I'm building and thought of this. A search turned up nothing...
Be sure that your wife isn't home when you do this. You also may want to be on a trip the next time your wife wants to use the oven to cook food. Other than that, it will work fine.
Yeah no Mrs. here. I've used the dishwasher to clean intakes and other things with pretty good results so I think instead of a turkey tomorrow I'll bake a bell housing! I'll post results!
That is going to be hard to chew no matter how long you bake it. I have thought about putting the stove we have now in the shop to use for similar tasks when the wife decides she wants a new one in the kitchen if the oven and at least one burner still work then. I did see oven cleaner at Dollar Tree yesterday.
A co-worker bought one of the HF powder coating system. Then he bought an old oven just for that purpose. Not sure if he has used it yet, but that is an idea. No worries about stinking up the house or contaminating for with leftover residue or smell. I know that half of the fun is seeing what you can get away with from the better half. Its just that certain things I won't try, especially if it involves me eating. I do like my food.
Whack job!! It's going to bake the crap off, just like you think it will. That will be a success. It's also going to make everything smell - think burnt grease and what ever else is on it. Your next few turkeys will probably taste like a bell housing. Get an electric stove and put it in the garage for parts baking.
The way I figure it is if the oven can turn spilled cheese and food grade grease and such to gray ash, it should be ok to get some old grease and such off in the same manner with no worry of contaminating future quiche and biscuits.....just kidding about the quiche...real men don't eat quiche...
Back after I got divorced I was left with a few hodgepodge kitchen utensils none of which was an electric mixer. There was however a single beater from an old mixer that was left. Got the drill out of the shop and chucked that puppy up in the drill (after blowing the drill off good with the air gun) and didn't find any metal shavings in my self made birthday cake. *shrug*
When I was building my first Quickchange many years ago, I used the wife's BRAND NEW oven to heat the center section to remove the pinion. She hadn't used it yet. Since she was out, I figured I could get it done and air out the house before she got home. Do you know it takes about 72 hours to get the smell of burnt gear lube out of a home with all the windows open and fans running constantly. Lucky for me that it did, in fact, clear out and we were able to use that oven for regular stuff for many years. Being the great guy that I am, when the springs on the door failed, I bought her a new one and moved the QC range w/oven to my workshop. I use it almost every day. It's now 33 years old. I've got wings to bake while I work next week.
Buy a used electric oven for this. You can get them very cheap. I know a couple of guys who have done this. Sent from my SM-G930T using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Had to mash potatoes for about 200 people at a church dinner. Used my 1/2 drill and a drywall mud stirrer. Had a lot of folks laughing, but they all ate the potatoes and were amazed there were no lumps. I did wash most of the drywall mud off first.
Hahahaha... this was a great thread just for the laughs! I boiled a bong once, the house was skunky for several days. Those bachelor days huh! Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I don't know what climate zone you're in. What I have done in New York in the summer, is spray oven cleaner on a greasy part and let it bake in the sun all day. Then rinse with a garden hose or pressure washer. Good results and no chance of a grease fire and/or odors in your house. Sent from my SM-T377V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I believe Martha Stewart has a book out on how to clean the various parts of an engine and transmission, in your kitchen oven; she releases her new book on differentials after the first of the year. If you season the parts correctly, there should't be any "offensive smells" or taste to other foods cooked in one after cleaning auto parts. It's getting hard to find heating elements, and other parts, for older ovens, so be sure to use as a new-as-possible oven to get the best results, and be sure you have a divorce attorney on retainer, or at least speed dial on your cell phone. I had a friend once who's kids got a new kitten; it had fleas, so they gave it a bath, and decided to dry it in the fairly new microwave oven. He had the micro wave oven up for sale for quite some time, and never managed to sell it. It seems anything cooked in it tasted like pussy. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
Hey, use what you want but I bought a cheap pressure washer from HF and it's been the best tool for cleaning I've found for big stuff. Scrap of the big crap with putty knives and maybe a wire brush then spray some "garage floor cleaner" on and let soak. The washer will knock off all the rest. Good luck.
Don't breathe any of the accumulation of crap inside the housing - old days clutch dust is asbestos. Heavy coat of enamel baked onto chassis parts helps keep road dirt & grease easy to clean.
I cleaned up a greasy '55 Chevy bell housing last year. I used oven cleaner on the inside since it was the worst, rinsed it off with the hose. The rest came off with brake clean and a wire brush. Wiped down the outside with lacquer thinner and painted it.
back in my bachelor days i baked a ham for dinner to impress my date. steamed rice, a salad, candles etc... it worked and the evening ended with a-boom-chucka-pow-wow....... three weeks later i opened the oven and found the ham we never finished........i could never get that smell out......
Did similar. Right before the dinner, I took a bottle of champagne and put it in the freezer to chill. DURING bow chicka wow wow, it sounded like someone threw a grenade into my kitchen. We ran in to check, the bottle exploded enough to blow the freezer door off its hinges. Youth is wasted on the young.
Took mine to the machine shop to have baked and blasted. Cost $25. Money well spent imho. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Ah yes, kitchen appliances are often used in the car hobby. As a teen I learned that when you filled the dishwasher with engine parts; intake, oil pan, valve covers, timing cover, etc. you had better make sure you empty the dishwasher BEFORE your mom gets home from work.... ...just sayin' Bobby
All you need is an old beater truck and a local spray car wash. I clean all my parts from valve covers to bell housings, etc. that way. A buck-fifty buys you 4 minutes of hot, soapy, high-pressure action and it all drains out through the rust holes in the bed floor. -just don't wear a white shirt.
At least you got a good bang for your buck. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Sent from my SM-T377V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
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