Important! : Help! Oil on manifold :/

  1. Infrequent Poster Joined: Mar 2010 Pembrokeshire Posts: 194 Citroen Saxo VTR 1.6
    #1
    Hey all,

    When i was doing my oil change today some dripped down onto my manifold and then when i took it for a quick run there was smoke coming from the manifold area (im assuming where the oil is burning on it)... sooo two questions really:
    a) will this catch fire?
    b) is there any way i can clean it off? (what to use etc)

    any help/advice wud be great
  2. Frequent Poster Joined: Jan 2010 Dundee Posts: 586 VTR also used to have Saxo 1.1i and Datsun cherr
    #2
    a) very unlikely as I've spilled oil there before & nothing happened apart from smoke
    b)suppose just a rag to get the majority of it off,then the heat off the manifold will burn the rest off
    anything else you'd attempt to put on there,ll just cause you the same problem getting it off mate-it wont take long to dissipate
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  3. Infrequent Poster Joined: Mar 2010 Pembrokeshire Posts: 194 Citroen Saxo VTR 1.6
    #3
    cheers man i was just worred about the smoke
  4. Frequent Poster Joined: Jan 2010 Dundee Posts: 586 VTR also used to have Saxo 1.1i and Datsun cherr
    #4
    just let it run a while,while its parked at your house,so people wont think "that guys' car is on fire!-wonder if he knows?". When I had the 1.1 I did the same thing & the smell drove me mad.But it dissapeared over a couple of days
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  5. Frequent Poster Joined: Jan 2010 Dundee Posts: 586 VTR also used to have Saxo 1.1i and Datsun cherr
    #5
    ank try propping up the bonnet while you do it,so the smoke doesnt go into the car through vents etc.turn your air/heating off
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  6. Infrequent Poster Joined: Mar 2010 Pembrokeshire Posts: 194 Citroen Saxo VTR 1.6
    #6
    Yeh i pulled up in tesco and a few of my m8s where going "omg man your cars on fire" lol

    Cheers for all the tips fella