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Old 10-06-13, 01:56 PM
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how to clean internal of n rb presilencer

i got this from this one from a junkyard with bad motor as engine oil dripped out of the exhaust during disassembly. has anyone tried to clean the honeycomb with simple green, purple degreaser or etc? thanks
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Interesting. I've never tried, but if packing is oil soaked, I'd say, as a cook, to submerge in a big tub and boil it out. With simple green or similar product. Rendering a presilencer, as it were.
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thanks for the idea.. hot water straight out of water heater and simple green since the internal is stainless steel
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My first car, and RX7, had a custom exhaust on it. It has a RB dual outlet header to Magnaflow resonator (acting as a presilencer). Due to a few reasons, a lot of MMO/oil was fed into the motor thinking a seal may be stuck. Long story short, it saturated the resonator.

This never gave me any issues, but let out a dense cloud of smoke whenever it back fired. On one occurrence it actually provided a smoke screen to distract a local officer from my friends playing around in front of me. It was a spy mod

I can't remember if it reduced in smoke density over time though.

If the internals are stainless, I'd try the heated Simple Green bath, as suggested above, if it were me.
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And tilt one end up, roll periodically, to allow oil to rise to surface.
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i actually installed it along with stock connecting pipe and muffler...15 min later, it smoke every time i hit the gas. i will take it apart this week. thanks all.
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my friend had an FD. one night @7000rpm on the freeway one of the turbo shafts broke, which emptied all the oil from the engine into the exhaust.

so a set of new turbos later, it started and smoked a bunch, then it mostly cleared up, but the oil in the muffler took a couple/few weeks of driving to clear up, it takes a while for it to get hot back there!
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