Novak Conversions Jeep Wrangler TJ engine mounts

How to make Evaporust instead of emptying wallet

TJ4Jim

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Needed to buy a few gallons to clean up the bits and pieces I removed during the repaint like the battery and cruise control trays until I realized it was going to be $64 for 2 gallons and that's nucking futs. It was like $11.99 a gallon a few years back soI looked it up and found a homebrew version that does the job well. Ordered the material and made a gallon yesterday to test it out on an overnight soak.

Material from Amazon was $40 and will make about 6 gallons.

1 gallon warm water
14oz (by weight) citric acid
5-1/2oz (by weight) sodium carbonate
1 squirt of Dawn detergent

Add citric acid to water and disolve then add sodium a litte bit at a time (it will react) when its done add a squirt of dawn.

Third pic is an 18 hour soak and a cleanup in the sink with a Scotchbrite.



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