Only had the car for a week and I had an unfortunate close encounter with a heavy duty salt truck's spray. I painfully cleaned off the exterior, counting up the damage from big salt crystals . I opened the engine bay and . There must be a pound of salt, some in chunks, others crusted, in the engine compartment.

I vacuumed out the lose chunks, but the radiator and the lower half of the engine compartment is WHITE with a thick layer of salt dried on to it.

I read the posts about the cleaning engine compartment. Does anyone have experience cleaning MASSIVE amounts of salt out of the engine compartment?

Would a gentle spray of warm water just eventually dissolve the salt?

 

wow ! didn't have the experience, but I'd start with a hosing down then an engine cleaning spray..

but these guys on here (http://www.autopia.org/links.php?op=viewlink&cid=1) will have good ideas i'm sure