Just curious--I recently bought one of those little steam cleaners to clean the upholstery in my car and something dawned on me... I wonder if it would clean my engine safely, that is not having to worry about getting any major components flooded w/water as you would cleaning it conventionally. I think what I'm really asking is whether or not the cleaner could produce enough condensation on the engine where I would have to be concerned about messing something up?

I wouldnt worry about it. If everything is up to snuff, important areas should already be fairly impervious to outside moisture. They have to be in order to do things like drive in the rain, wash the motor.

Most common problem I've experienced with water and engines is distributor caps leaking. My old ford work truck used to every single time I washed the motor, even after I replaced the damn cap. I just had to pop the cap and spray some brake clean in to absorb the moisture.

You dont have a distributor, so you have no worries there. Unless you have an exposed air filter, clean away. Let me know how the steam cleaner works for that, I've got one also, but dont use it much.

I did an engine shampooing to my engine recently, just plug any open holes with cloths or something to block the water, now with mine I use chemicals then pressured water so I really had to be careful, all went well but if you are concerned about an area just cover it with something.

88delta--I'm gonna try it as soon as the weather warms up here (13 degrees here; probably a heat wave compared to where you are!!!) As soon as I'm done, I'll definitely let you know how it worked out. Maybe I'll even upload some pics (as soon as my daughter shows me how!!!)

Right now, its about -15* celcius outside, which isnt too bad. It gets down to -35*C in the depths of our "Canadian winter" Off the top, I'm not sure what that works out to in *F

-5* Celsius = +23* Fahrenheit
-35* Celsius = -31* Fahrenheit

wow I must be bored

winter is the slowest season where I work

What do you do?

I'm an outside sales rep for a masonry / landscape supply company. I have an office but also spend quite a bit of time on the road during the busier times of the year. Not many people pouring concrete or building brick buildings or big retaining walls in freezing weather.

Now... back on topic