Plastic bag melted

[Rick Parker]

OK is there a method of removing what appears to be a melted plastic bag from Ceramic Black exhaust pipe. I was under the car this evening changing the oil and glanced at the RH 3" tube after the collector behind the front tire and it has gravel imbedded in melted plastic bag. Don't remember collectiong it???? What an ugly mess.

[tkb289]

Rick,

Sounds like quite a mess indeed. Don't have any first hand experience, but would suggest taking a unused paint stirring stick, and put a bevel on it to make it into essentially a wooden chisel. A popsicle stick works too.

Then take heat gun and warm up the mess a little to see if you can scrape it off. That should get the bigger bits off, not sure what to do for the rest of it. Let's see if anyone else has some ideas. Hope this helps.

[Rick Parker]

Thanks for the good idea, the wooden scraper sounds like a good tool. Disappointed that I found it tonight during final stages of prepping for breakfast run tomorrow. It will have to wait. Don't recall collecting it.

[ha_pe_1968]

Hi Rick!

Try this:
Removing plastic from sidepipes

its a lot of work but it works

Peter

[FWB]

MEK and a brass bristle brush

[bobcowan]

Get it warm by either running the engine or with a heat gun. Spray on some Easy Off oven cleaner - watch for overspray. Then scrape it off with a plastic ice scraper.

[scootter]

Run the engine and get the pipes hot. Soak a rag with water and rub it off. It came off mine fairly easy.
Scott

[G-Pete]

Last year a Dallas PD cruiser burned down because of a plastic bag. He officer caught a bag on the highway, after awhile he noticed smoke coming from his vehicle while he is on a traffic light.
Long story short the little fire extinguisher did not help much...