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After I got the motor bolted in on the 68 Long Stepper I decided I would do a test with two different degreaser products I had in the shop. So I put a large piece of painters plastic drop cloth under the truck to catch any of the oil drippings and muck from the motor.

One side I sprayed with Gunk degreaser from a spray bottle with a trigger and the other side sprayed with a Walmart brand foaming degreaser. Both of them said wait 10 minutes before wiping or spraying off. The side that I put the Gunk degreaser only did a little bit of good while the other side was really working well. In the areas that were heavily baked on oil I used a brush to help clean it up. I eventually sprayed the Gunk side down with the Walmart brand item since it was doing a much better job. Let it all run down and drip on the plastic on the garage floor for about another 15 minutes.

After a bit I rolled up the painters plastic with all the residue and muck and tossed it into a small box and into the garbage. Push the truck out of the garage and fired up the power washer to do the final wash off. I was a little surprised how well it did cleaning the motor.

Here are the before and after pictures. The dark spots on the clean motor are not grease or oil it is where the paint did not stick from previous painting of motor.