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truck pee

JeffyT | Posted in General Discussion on April 30, 2009 06:37am

Today the truck peed power steering fluid on a customer’s nice concrete driveway.

What’s my cleaner of choice for taking that mark off? I’m thinking brake system cleaner but …

fwiw it’s getting rained on right now.

thanks all

j

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  1. gfretwell | Apr 30, 2009 07:26am | #1

    Regular old clay oil absorber is what I use when I spill oil on my driveway but you want to get it down as quick as possible. I grind it in with my shoe, until it had soaked up as much as possible and sweep it up. Rinse repeat.

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      xxPaulCPxx | Apr 30, 2009 09:15am | #5

      You could use a shoe, but I've had great luck with using a scrap 2x4 to grind in the clay to pull out the oil.

      Tu stultus esRebuilding my home in Cypress, CAAlso a CRX fanatic!

      Look, just send me to my drawer.  This whole talking-to-you thing is like double punishment.

  2. wallyo | Apr 30, 2009 08:00am | #2

    jeffy

    Blow a hose? or seal leak?

    Not that it matters just wondering how bad. Any way I have used Home depots zep with good results.

    http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100619236

    Also used plain joy or equal dish detergent.

    Wallyo

    1. JeffyT | May 01, 2009 04:19am | #17

      drip leak from a hose which leaked onto the pulley which flung it all over the place. it's not so bad on the driveway but I need to spend some quality time under the hood this weekend which is not my favorite place to be. I'll volunteer for sawdust and a chisel over grease and wrench any day. i guess I could make an appointment and have a pro do it for me just like I expect people to call me with their housing needs. Then again, maybe not. j

  3. oldbeachbum | Apr 30, 2009 08:41am | #3

    Simple Green worked in with a brush and a few grunts, also a thick paste of Tide powder laundry detergent brush in

    ...The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.  -Mark Twain...Be kind to your children....they will choose your nursing home....aim low boys, they're ridin' shetland ponies !!

    1. wallyo | Apr 30, 2009 05:10pm | #7

      Good thought forgot that one Simple Green should do it to.Wallyo

  4. JMadson | Apr 30, 2009 08:57am | #4

    Make sure you smack it in the nose with a newspaper, bad truck.

     
     
    1. JeffyT | May 01, 2009 04:24am | #18

      < smack it in the nose with a newspaper, bad truck >I believe in nonviolent conflict resolution - made it park out on the street all day getting splashed by all those pesky little suburbanite cars. It'll think twice next time it needs to let go. j

      1. Bing187 | May 01, 2009 06:25am | #19

        Dragged my old pickup out of the woods a couple weeks ago......needed a starter. Put it in, charged the battery, the old girl started right up.I sat inside, listened to the diesel purr, pretty satisfied that I'd gotten the old barge runnin' without any help.Then I got out , and saw the 4' circle of tranny fluid underneath. Seems I bumped a tranny cooling line that was rotten, when I was doing the starter.Simple Green, and Castrol Super Clean.....Not sure which one did the most work, used a half gallon or so of each, scrubbed, rinsed, re-applied.......It was on my 6 month old asphalt driveway, not concrete, but after 3 scrubs and rinses, no trace of the stuff...good luckBing

        1. JeffyT | May 01, 2009 06:10pm | #20

          Well, I ignored your all's advice, listened to my local mechanic, and bought a can of chlorinated brake cleaner, sprayed it on the puddles and drips, and they all disappeared like magic. Beautiful. But THE STINK !! Sweet mercy! That stuff is a can full of nasty. It'll be the Simple Green/Tide/Dawn/cat litter/napalm mix next time without a doubt. thanks allj

          1. wallyo | May 01, 2009 08:42pm | #21

            Heard of brake cleaner which makes sense. Never heard of the chlorinated part. good tip if you like the smell i guess.Wallyo

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    Sphere | Apr 30, 2009 04:03pm | #6

    Equal parts Tide powder and Dawn.

    Or was that for Napalm? No, thats Tide and gasoline.

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    1. DaveRicheson | Apr 30, 2009 10:16pm | #9

      Used that and added a couple oz. of mineral spirits.

      Works well as a paste mix with a little more Tide than Dawn.

      Had 65 chevy pu with a shot rear main. Kept a drain pan in the bed and shoved it under the truck every time I stopped somehwere. Poured the run out into a coffe can and the recycled it back through the truck the next morning. Nevr changed the oil in that old beater in two years. Just bopught $1.00 a gallon recycled oil and poured it through.

      I was green before green was cool.

      I was dirt poor too.

    2. DaveRicheson | Apr 30, 2009 10:25pm | #10

      My Director at work has taken the all of her departments there every year for the past four years for the Dawn at the Downs breakfast.

      I have never gone with them.

      It is not mandatory, and I always tell my supervisor "I choose who I break bread with, and she isn't on my list."

      He tell me I need tio work on my people skills :)

      It is a sight to see though. Back in my youtha close friend use to pony horse there durring the season. I went with him many mornings. Met some great characters on the backstretch.

    3. Dave45 | May 01, 2009 01:59am | #14

      The Department of Homeland Security wants to talk to you, dude! - lol

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        Sphere | May 01, 2009 02:05am | #15

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  6. [email protected] | Apr 30, 2009 09:40pm | #8

    Unscented Kitty Litter, (it's clay), and Tide mixed together 50/50.  You can keep some in a paper bag behind the seat for years, until you need it. 

  7. Manzier | May 01, 2009 12:31am | #11

    I'll third the Simple Green.  Environmentally friendly as well.

  8. jjc155 | May 01, 2009 01:07am | #12

    I have had luck with two ways of getting oil off of a drive. 1) was a commercially bought concrete cleaner, I think that it was a valspar product that I got at Home depot and it worked well.Use a real stiff brush to work it in and keep it wet 2) is dumping a boat load of Dawn dish soap on it and letting that soak in real well. I actually left it until it rained to wash it off. Both ways worked well, but it was on oil that had only been on the concrete for less than a day each time.

    Hope this helps

    J-



    Edited 4/30/2009 6:08 pm ET by jjc155

  9. Mooney | May 01, 2009 01:08am | #13

    Super clean

     

  10. Tyr | May 01, 2009 02:54am | #16

    Had a good friend who was a Jeep mechanic. You could eat off his shop floor after 30 years of Jeeps (known to leak). He had a little container he could pressurize from the compressor. He wasted no time if somebody (like me) leaked just a drop on his concrete apron.

    Used Mineral Spirits. Spray and wipe up with his ever present red rag. Then once a week he took his pressure washer, used heated water & soap and blasted it clean of left over spirits. The rag wipe up is critical.

    Inside the concrete was troweled smooth. Outside it had texture (probably what you have).

    I always carry a can of pressurized engine cleaner(GUNK Engine Brite Degreaser) from local discount parts store. I hit the drip with it and sometimes scrub with my old gypboard tool cleaning brush. Then use some Calgone (sp)dishwasher soap in a mud bucket, add HOT water, scrub with brush or the stiff shop broom, rinse. Do not wait. Tyr

    Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.... Roman Poet Phaedrus 15BC–50AD

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