So, I'm kinda stumped on My front valve cover. A while back I used Purple Power to clean my engine, and I sprayed some on the Upper intake manifold and the front valve cover along with other things too. So after I rinsed off my engine, I came upon a very ugly looking Valve Cover now, It's not one solid color like how it was before I cleaned it. It's splotchy and different colors.



See, if you look closely, you'll see that it's a different shade from the rest of it. As shown in the pic below



So, I want it to look clean under the hood. So I was thinking of getting another cleaner to fix it and make it look better.

Any ideas guys?

Thanks!

-MonteLSV6

 

just paint it

 

yeah man, I'm afraid at this point you'll have to paint it.

 

I have to agree. It looks like its going to have to be painted.

 

you could try going over it with a fine grit sandpaper, that could remove some of the corroded / pitting effect from the cleaner, just enuff to even out the color, than wipe it off with a clean dry rag. i did that to my 3.1 ( amazing how similar the 3.1 & 3400 look, btw), i lightly scuffed the intake manifold and the front valve cover, which both had that pitting. it worked pretty well, its a pain trying to reach in to get the whole thing though...
good luck, man

 

Hm, wow thanks ryan, never thought about the sandpaper haha. I'll give it a try man thanks

 

if you end up removing it and/or painting it, you should do a walk through. Ive really wanted to see how to remove parts off our 3400's. I wanted to do painting for the longest time... just dont know how to take the pieces off!

 

(you should look into a haynes manual for $25)

 

touche. haha. I have on ordered through Advanced auto parts, but I havent gotten a call saying its in. I ordered that like 2 or 3 weeks ago. plus, arnt the pictures not THAT great in them? I ordered mine for references... thats about it.

 

the pictures aren't the best, but it's not hard to know what they are talking about as you read and look at your own engine.