ok previous owner left a plastic bottle or something i expect brake fluid bottle on the exhaust manifold(dr. side) and of course he ran the car and it melted to exhaust.i have removed the plastic that i could however it has stained the manifold and continues to stink.bad enough that i am afraid that it will catch fire even tho there is no material left.is there anyway other than running motor to finish getting this off?

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1972 280 sel 4.5
1986 xr4ti
For any given large, complex, hard-to-understand, expensive problem, there exists at least one short, simple, easy, cheap wrong answer.

its going to have to burn off.

I doubt that it will catch fire. I once caught a plastic bag on a muffler and it finally burned off. Anything you use to 'clean' it off will have to burn off, too.

Go for a good 30 minute highway drive, I bet that will burn it all off. Do a couple hard accelerations!

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

I thought this might be a thread about Ukrainian aka Russian Cameras. Whatever they use to tan their leather cases is some smelly stuff.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags