GM top engine cleaner

[rr2030]

If you REALLY want some TEC stop by the local chevy dealer and offer a mechanic $20 if he can find an old bottle around the shop. A lot of dealers have lots of old stuff laying around if they have been in biz for a while.

Agree, I tossed all my TEC, new and old a few years ago. If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always(blame using TEC), the formula was changed in the late 80's or early 90's, for EPA or health issues, maybe both I would guess. At one time TEC could only be had in 2oz plastic bottles here in CA.

I don't think steam cleaning will be the answer, hope I am wrong. Different dynamic with steam cleaning compared to turning water into steam during combustion.

Now here is the challenge. If a powder or chemical company could produce a propellant that could be loaded just like smokeless powder and it removed carbon, then when you are done shooting, you fire a few of these cleaning rounds down the barrel and it starts the carbon removal process, then you clean as normal and no carbon. Until then it's just going to have to be scrubbed out with what ever product you personally feel is magic.

 

[Ccrider]

Sea foam

Please expound on your use.

Thanks

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Please expound on your use.

Thanks

Spray it on a patch and soak it down. Follow that with butchs on a bronze brush, a few butchs patches to flood it all back out then as a last step i run a patch soaked with carb cleaner down there to dry it all out. I dont have issues with carbon or copper

 

[Ccrider]

Spray it on a patch and soak it down. Follow that with butchs on a bronze brush, a few butchs patches to flood it all back out then as a last step i run a patch soaked with carb cleaner down there to dry it all out. I dont have issues with carbon or copper

Thanks. Have you used lighter fluid to dry the bore out prior to shooting?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Thanks. Have you used lighter fluid to dry the bore out prior to shooting?

No. Lighter fluid leaves an oily film behind- which is why jewell suggests using it to flush their triggers out

 

[Ccrider]

Thanks

 

[rr2030]

I flush with non chlorinated brake cleaner, then break free on a patch. Many solvents will strip any protection from the barrel.

 

[stifffingers]

Lol, I'd be in some nut house painting ceramic figurines if I cleaned every 15 rds.
I bet your system works though. I look at cleaning as punishment for having so much fun.

The OP asked for what short range Benchrest shooters do to keep their rifles clean. That's what I do and many others I suppose.

 

[Tim s]

Wipeout Patchout, not the foam, the liquids, works very well.
After an agg, completely clean with Thorroclean system which is relatively new by Chris Harris @ bullet central. It is IOSSO based in solution which is nylon brushed in the bore and then patched out with flushing solution....stuff works quite well on carbon, even most of a carbon ring without dedicated attention to the throat.....gotta like that.

 

[AlNyhus]

I used the original G.M. Top Engine Cleaner (metal pop top cans) for quite a while. The active ingredient was a salt that broke down the carbon.

If you have a carbon issue, Shooters Choice Black Powder Gel does a nice job.

Good shootin'. -Al

 

[Dusty Stevens]

The OP asked for what short range Benchrest shooters do to keep their rifles clean. That's what I do and many others I suppose.

Exactly. Most clean in under 10rounds unless its a 10shot unlimited match

 

[ChrisA]

I tried the seafoam top engine cleaner and while it worked, slowly, I find much better and faster carbon removal with Bortech C4.

Thanks,

Chris