Helpful tips

Helpful tip #1- working on my 82-CR250, have it stripped quite aways down. Removed airbox and decided to clean it up, good shape other than years of air filter oil gunk and rattle can overspray. Being it is plastic the solvent tank would be a possible bad thing, ave. temp outside has been below freezing so hose is out of picture also. Scrape big hunks off and get great idea of Castrol Super Clean, great stuff. Great idea gets better with use of hot water, which would come from house water heater. Great idea gets way better, wait for wife to go grocery shopping, takes couple of hours "usually" and spray SuperClean on-in air box and put it in dishwasher! Gets it really clean when set on pots/pan setting, even was "smart" enough not to use "plate warmer" in case it would distort it, heh I was using my head. Pull out of dishwasher-nice and clean-priceless! Inside of dishwasher looked like you splattered chain lube spray all over it- Put very nice clean airbox in garage-hide evidence. Wife come home and I just finishined cleaning inside of dishwasher and was running it again-soap no dishes. Fully avoid getting busted untill nine year old daughter ratted me out, she didn't get a new barrel horse for Christmas so she had it in for me. Wife of twenty years wasn't surprised and only said "it better not smell like those carb. thingy's you put in our old one years ago" Of course not "dear". Tip #2, send daughter to store with wife next time, Heh, I have two more airboxes to do Tip#3, got my Backtrack video that is advertised on this site today, great video, well worth it. Loved the footage from the 72 Puyallup TransAMA, I was six but I was there, as usual, daughter didn't believe me-wonder why?

Great tip

You sure can tell a story

Clandestine is definately the way to go.

When I was a teenager I repainted my exhaust pipe with high-heat paint then baked it in my Mom's oven at 400 for a couple of hours to cure it. Worked great but the house smelled horrible from the fumes for a few hours. She was at work during all this and never knew.

I think my dream garage should include all the kitchen appliances so I can do things like bake on paint with an oven, wash nasty parts in the dishwasher, chill bearings and other parts in the freezer, chill a case of Cokes in the fridge, etc, etc, etc.

All my wife's kitchen stuff is off-limits to me; she is all-knowing. But I've got a slop sink in the laundry room and a freezer in the basement which I can use, with permission of course.