Cleaning black engine WITHOUT water?
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I've thought of that. But, you'd have to drive the bike over there, and then wait for about 30 minutes for the bike to cool down. Still, it would work I guess.
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If you don't have to do it very often it should be a fair trade off. I rarely use water on my bike so to me it would be ok. I've wondered about this myself though, because my last bike, a Deuce I bought used. And it could have benefited from a cleaning of the black engine. But I didn't have it for very long before trading it in, so I never found the best answer for my situation. I have hard water too, but when I wash my vehicles I do it out of the sun, quickly, and then dry them off with towels immediately, and sometimes a leaf blower first.
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I have untreated well water outside and progressive filtered and softened water inside. I spray down the bike with outside water, wash with inside water from a bucket, rinse with outside water, and final rinse with inside water.
Wax on the paint, chrome polish on the chrome and detail spray on the engine.
This method works great. No hard water spots etc.
There is very little added salt from a water softener. Softeners use brine water to flush the softening medium and ionize the medium to collect iron and minerals. The brine water flushes the medium then is backflushed from the softener.
Wax on the paint, chrome polish on the chrome and detail spray on the engine.
This method works great. No hard water spots etc.
There is very little added salt from a water softener. Softeners use brine water to flush the softening medium and ionize the medium to collect iron and minerals. The brine water flushes the medium then is backflushed from the softener.
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