Take your car to a car wash with a pocket full of quarters, and a set of ramps. back up on the ramps, and go to town blasting off as much as you can.
This will help a lot and make it a lot cleaner job to start with.

Iam lucky I have access to a steam cleaner where I use to work. even though I had things pretty clean already, I loaded it all up and hit them again with the steam.

As far as the Diff went. I cleaned off the grease around the side seals, and covered with Duct tape, then pressure washed away. this is with my replacement one from PNP.

The trailing Arms, I duct taped the Hubs shut to protect the bearings.

As far as manually degreasing, I used some rags and Mineral Sprits (paint thinner). then scrubed them down with Marine Clean, since I sanded things down and POR`ed them.

Charlie

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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works