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Rick Parker 10-14-2011 10:34 PM

Plastic bag melted
 
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 10-14-2011 11:49 PM

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 10-15-2011 12:04 AM

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 10-15-2011 04:55 AM

Hi Rick!

Try this:
http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/supe...sidepipes.html

its a lot of work but it works

Peter

FWB 10-15-2011 01:06 PM

MEK and a brass bristle brush

bobcowan 10-15-2011 02:10 PM

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 10-15-2011 09:06 PM

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 10-17-2011 06:08 AM

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...


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