I applied Twinkle copper polish with a wet cloth and it came out aluminium-lustre. Nice. It works but tedious to do and hard on your hands and fingers. Is there any product out there that you know of that will do the job just as well?

I use S.O.S. or Brillo pads, hereis a pic of one I cleaned up...

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That's an odd looking diesel engine.

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84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

Benzcrusher--where are you? Greenville here

Always wondered if a grinding wheel or a buffer of some sort would do.
Benzcrusher, those are strange looking fuel insection lines in the photo there. Did you install spark plugs on your diesel?

I installed the spark plugs right before I added a wet nitrous system... This was a '67 230 fintail I messed with last year.

-Benzcrusher
1983 300DT with a 1980 300SD 617.950 motor with ? miles...
1982 300TDT soon to have a 1981 300D 617.912 motor
1972 280SE 4.5, pissed me off so it is available for parts...
1979 300D slowly being torn down for parts...
1997 Volvo 960 wagon, the most expensive maintence monster I've owned....

Wolf: My mail is Inman, but my wife dosen't want anyone to think that we are redneck so she corrects me by saying Boiling Springs...

Just don't spray it down with degreaser then attack it with water while the valve cover's off the engine. A friend of mine did that and I spent the next hour trying to get all the water droplets dried off the inside of the valve cover... I know that water should evaporate in an engine, but I figure there's no point in taking a chance, eh?

evil...EVIL...EVIL!!!

You need to wipe a very thin layer of oil over the cover after doing that or it's going to oxidize and start having a white flakey look to it. Guess it doesn't have to be oil, just anything that will offer a little protection from the air and water.

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1985 300D Turbo ~225k
2000 F350 (Powerstroke) 4X4, SWB, CC, SRW, 6spd ~148k
1999 International 4900, DT466e (250hp/660 ft/lbs), Allison MD3060 ~73k