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Offline rkwpjv

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Cleaning
« on: April 26, 2012, 03:03:46 PM »
Hi All, I went up to Sandy Cape (Jurien, WA) for Easter and on the Easter Thursday it rained leaving the tracks muddy. When I went to clean off the Jayco, the body came up clean as a whistle but the chasis and underbody is caked with mud and won't shift. I took to it with truck wash, high pressure cleaner and a scrubbing brush and still wont shift. It has set like cement. I dont want to scrape it as I dont want to scratch off the Galv. Has anyone any ideas to get it clean?
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Re: Cleaning
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2012, 03:06:56 PM »
Sit it over a sprinkler for an hour then blast off with hose. Need to make it all wet through like mud again and then comes off pretty easy......
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Re: Cleaning
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2012, 03:08:59 PM »
Put a sprinkler under it and run it for an hour, the moisture will penetrate the mud and then it hould pretty much fall off if not come off with high pressure.

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Re: Cleaning
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2012, 03:09:42 PM »
Beat me to it teabag ;D
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Re: Cleaning
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2012, 03:14:34 PM »
Quote from: Burnsy on April 26, 2012, 03:09:42 PM
Beat me to it teabag ;D

Experience tells.....many clean ups after muddy weekends.....you obviously experienced the same.....
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Re: Cleaning
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2012, 03:16:29 PM »
Thanks Guys! I will give that a shot on the weekend.
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Re: Cleaning
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2012, 04:26:08 PM »
Once you've got the CT and the tug clean, a good soaking in CT18 Truck Wash also helps to get the last bit of grime off. Beware though, CT18 will strip off all the wax and polish too.
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Re: Cleaning
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2012, 05:22:43 PM »
Hi get some CT18 Truck wash, it's creat for lifting that kind of stuff,
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Re: Cleaning
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2012, 06:25:48 PM »
Thanks BigJules, I didn't know that! Explains why I have to polish the Prado so often.
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