Leezyrider

Thanks JR, appreciate the reply. You raise some interesting points. I did think some initial scraping would be needed to get the big stuff out, and am happy to do this. What you say about the other side of the valve that is out of sight, I'm guessing L shaped scrapers might help. I hear what you say about solvents not being great at dissolving carbon, but I was thinking more a fluid of the like that is used to clean EGR valves, which I have used to great effect. I do have a few large syringes that don't have rubber bungs but solid plastic ones, which I use for vacating brake fluid from reservoirs, so I think I could draw the cleaning fluid out with them. I appreciate your input, thank you.

Hi all, I find myself in the un-enviable position of having a 2.0 Tfsi motor with significant carbon build up on the back of the inlet valves and probably within the inlet manifold itself, I have an internal flap stuck! I know what my choices are. Unfortunately there are no workshops in the town that I live that offer a walnut blasting service, so unless my other plan is workable, I'm looking at purchasing equipment to do the job myslef, at considerable cost. My "other" plan is to set each cylinder in turn to tdc, closing the inlet valves, then filling the cavity behind the valves with an aggressive carbon disolving fluid and then slowly washing the carbon build up with a series of long paintbrushes slowly desolving the stuff, which I would then pump out with a small pump. My question is this; has anyone tried it this way before or can anyone see a problem with this method that I have not seen. I have not had the inlet manifold off the engine yet so have not seen in person the kind of access I will have to do this, but a couple of videos I have seen suggest to me there is space to achieve this. Comments on this appreciated. Thanking you in advance.

Sprint Yello, so that's the colour. Yeah very easy to find in car parks, but attracts flies etc like nothing else I've ever had.

Hi all, just introducing myself, I come to Skoda from living with a 2004 Mk4 Golf R32 DSG for the last 10 years, a very rare beast, and now find myself razzing around in a 2012 petrol Octavia VRS Tfsi DSG (I can only drive automatics now), a very yellow one, and am pleasently surprised to find it's pretty much a Mk4 Golf underneath, a platform I am very familiar with, being a mechanic and spending many years nursing my neglected R32 back to life. I'm loving the Octavia, it's less focused as a driver's car as the R32 and the engine, although it soungs nice and gruff, is less pleasent to listen to, but it munches up the miles lovely and sparkles in the corners a bit too. Happy bunny is me. I hope I can offer this "club" some useful information from my experience over the years with this platform. It's all about the getting there and not the destination for me.