Gunk or Diesel as a degreaser

[SimonD]

I was looking at the various Gunk degreaser products as I had great luck using their bug-off spray to remove the adhesive from some decals on the bonnet. All look useful but I found this on a website:

Gunk is not a "de-greaser" at all - it's an expensively packaged over the counter can of diesel. Do yourself a favor and go buy one of those little red gas cans for $3 and put $2 worth of diesel in it - it works for everything.

Is this true? Do most of you just use diesel to degrease engine bays and power trains? If not, what do you use - Gunk has good reviews and I like the name as it is my sort of technical term.

 

[EvilEd]

I have used both. for brushing on/off, i found little difference. For soaking / swilling parts, gunk seems to works a lot better for me.

Also, you can water down gunk, Never bothered to try an water down diesel

my main use of diseasal before was pushbike chains and bearings.... soak overnight to soften things and then brush the crud off the following day. Then a gear oil bath and hang for another day before lubing with chain oil once back on.

My tuppence worth.... probably not helped much.

 

[BIG clean GREEN]

Gunk used to do a foam based product which I found to be better as it clung around to parts better in the engine bay and was easy to brush in, I've not seen it though for a while !

Nick

 

[Ecky Thump]

I get a gallon can of comma degreaser from my local factors for a quarter the price of gunk.
Works just as well and can be hosed off with water.

 

[Dave Burgess]

I've never used diesel as a degreaser/cleaner, I would think it's too 'oily'. It makes a good releasing agent, like plus gas etc, especially if you can soak the item. For cleaning I would suggest plain kero/parafin.