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Old 10-30-2003, 05:22 PM
leathermang leathermang is offline
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If you do a search on this site you will find this has been discussed pretty well...
My favorite is a box of Trisodium Phosphate from a store like Home Depot...
BUT be sure it is that on the ingredients..
Because it used to be called TSP... and then many phosphates were taken out of regular laundry powder... and they don't clean as well as before...but they still sell " TSP" but it often does not have the NEEDED ingredient in it....
They did this due to towns letting it get into rivers and it is a fertilizer.. so it caused algae blooming and weed growing in the rivers...
But it will even clean gobs of grease off mechanic's rags... you put about a cup into a five gallon pail of hot water, let it sit overnight... then rinse and then wash in regular laundry detergent...
If you make up a " paste" of the actual TSP and use a ' GI" brush on the driveway where the oil is.. then spray warm water on it... it should clean it up completely...
Be wary of any solutions which have petroleum distallates in them because they may disolve the driveway....

As far as the car is concerned... you will have to identify the point under the car where the oil is leaking for any guesses to be made as to seriousness of the situation... at some point you will need to clean the engine so you can determine where it is leaking.. in the mean time... just watch the oil level with the dipstick and don't let it get lower than the MIN mark...

Last edited by leathermang; 10-30-2003 at 05:28 PM.
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