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cleaning spark plug wires

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:58 am
by cityboy21
Scored a set of 1993 date coded wires with the original distributor cap and all the original wire looms. They need a good cleaning but curious what I can use that will be aggressive enough to clean them without removing the date coding, wire numbers or the Motorcraft insignia. Tried some WD-40 on one wire but noticed some fading of the stamps on that wire. Don't want to proceed if there is something better to use out there.

Re: cleaning spark plug wires

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:51 am
by WillyB93
Might try some diluted simple green, dawn dish soap to cut the grease off.

Re: cleaning spark plug wires

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:19 am
by cityboy21
Thanks WillyB. I did end up using Dawn dish soap to get off the easy stuff first and followed up the tough stuff with WD-40 making sure to not take off any of the original stamps. Came out pretty nice actually.

Re: cleaning spark plug wires

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:21 pm
by Gecko86
Post some pics