Just took off (what is left of) the muffler and gave the whole thing a good cleaning - some will say sacrilege - but I just blasted it with the High Pressure Washer.

I will be completely stripping it anyway, so I don't care if it gets full of water etc - I don't think I can make it much worse.

And the pressure washer is good for cleaning in between the fins and other places that are hard to reach.

So - a good soaking in degreaser - wait 20 minutes and attack.

This is the result.

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Came out OK - after cleaning I was able to have a better look at the hole in the deck - it's worse than I first thought - the hole has some cracks radiating off it, and one of the cracks goes all the way to the edge of the deck, not for from the wheel mount - Blumby is right - that is going to need a better fix than I had in mind - I like to do things myself, but I'm not sure I could do the welding to the deck, so will need to get this done by someone who knows what they are doing.

I'll put a photo of the hole/cracks in a later post when I am addressing the issue.

Polybus

Last edited by Polybus; 31/05/17 05:19 AM.