Originally Posted by Pagnew

Thanks for replyin' ~ guess the other hombres have spiders, squirrels and birds nests growin' under their hoods!

Originally Posted by freekyFX4

Nah, I just never get enough miles on a vehicle to have to clean the engine. Plus, I park my cars in my garage at night and I don't live in the north. No snow, no salt, and very little messy weather here. Every once in a while, I will pop the hood at the local carwash and spray off the engine just to get the dust off.

Originally Posted by Pagnew

Since I actually use my truck as a truck and use 4X4 for it's intended purpose it see's alot of off road in mud and dusty farm environments. I need a bit more than a tinkle at the car wash ~ but thanks anyway.

Originally Posted by freekyFX4

Yeah, that plus the fact that the engine under your hood doesn't fill the entire engine bay would be the reason your engine gets so much dirtier. I have driven through some crap and my engine still looks like brand new. Of course, you can't see through to the ground when you look under my hood! If you had a real engine, you would know something about that!

Originally Posted by freekyFX4

Also, if you spray it off every time you wash the truck, it will never get so dirty that you need to do anything special. I usually spray mine off with the engine running.

Originally Posted by Pagnew

Yeah...right... to get the 'dust' off.

Enjoy 'princess', take her for a walk, and don't forget to do the toe nails too...

Originally Posted by freekyFX4

Lol...she appreciates the thoughfulness. My 17th anniversary is in a week and I am going to get her a spa treatment thanks to you. (The wife, that is.) The truck got to bring home two scoops of mulch today to put around the shrub beds. The guy at the nursery told me that my truck was too nice to be hauling mulch. I agree!

Originally Posted by rstu740

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