Vacuuming the front wheel wheel well

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I would like some suggestions on how to effectively vacuum the rear wheel area "box" behind the front wheels. I know that there is the triangular opening, but want to know your ideas on how to rig my Sears small shop vac to get down to the bottom of the box, or use other brand of vacuum or attachment or method etc. that has worked for you.
 
Not quite the answer to your question but if you have a compressor rig up a wand using soft copper tubing and air gun and feed air into whatever cavity you want to clean while you vacuum. You can bend the tube to fit all the kinky cavities. Works in the top fender area as well.
 
If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, I pulled everything off my shop vac and just used the flexible hose. I sometimes use my gas leaf blower on my car also since I don't own a compressor.
 
+1 on the above, and make sure the drain hole is unplugged, you can force air up that also. Then coat the inside with Penetrol or some sort of cavity wax stuff. Every couple of months blow/vacuum the accumulated sand and crap out depending on how often you drive it.
 
I duct taped a piece of heater hose to the end of the shop vac hose. That had enough flexibility to get almost all of the sand out. You can use compressed air and industrial tooth brushes to get the rust flakes off. Then soak everything inside with Rustoleam, or your favorite rust preventor.
 
Stevehose said:
+1 on the above, and make sure the drain hole is unplugged, you can force air up that also. Then coat the inside with Penetrol or some sort of cavity wax stuff. Every couple of months blow/vacuum the accumulated sand and crap out depending on how often you drive it.
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alternatively coat everything with penetrol or similar
and install LOKARIS to cover the complete area
 
The LOKARIS look pretty good. Do you recommend the aluminum ones? Do you happen too know if they come with all the mounting bits. I see they offer some little clips in the side bar of their page and havent quite figured out all the translation yet. Are there any LOKARIS owners out there that can comment? I was thinking of making something out of plastic but these look awesome! Thanks for the tip!

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lokari.de%2F

oops...i see there is info available here with a quick LOKARIS search, awesome...thanks again!
 
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restart said:
The LOKARIS look pretty good. Do you recommend the aluminum ones? Do you happen too know if they come with all the mounting bits. I see they offer some little clips in the side bar of their page and havent quite figured out all the translation yet. Are there any LOKARIS owners out there that can comment? I was thinking of making something out of plastic but these look awesome! Thanks for the tip!

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.lokari.de/

oops...i see there is info available here with a quick LOKARIS search, awesome...thanks again!
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Lokaris must be the best what happened to our E9 front fenders!!
But do not fastened them with rivets!! That's NO NO!
You will for sure take them off for regular maintenance.
 
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