Sled Brite Belly Pan Cleaner

Everyone who owns a snowmobile with a bright colored bellypan knows what happens when two-stroke oil exhaust accumulates around the exhaust outlet. Or how about REV riders with bright yellow side panels that turn to black and ugly.
There has been much discussion on how to clean these surfaces. Many of the solvents and cleaners found to remove the dirt and grime also damage the plastic, or are bad to have absorbed into your skin and bloodstream.
We’ve had pretty good success using gritty citrus hand cleaner, applying it with a brush and letting it sit and chemically do its thing for a few minutes, going back over it a few times to fully remove the crap. The citrus-based gritty hand cleaners are easily available and do a fairly good job, but do require a bit of elbow work to get it all the way clean.
Last season we got hold of a product called “Sled Brite Belly Pan Cleaner” manufactured by Bio-Kleen Products of Kalamazoo, Michigan. This product was said to be 100% biodegradable and would safely remove carbon deposits, dissolve belt dust residue and emulsify grease and oils.
We had plenty of dirty REVs to try it on, and we did. The instructions tell you to spray it on and let set for 3-4 minutes, then scrub and spray off with water. Most of the time we just sprayed it on and let it do its thing for a few minutes, then wiped all of the ugly stuff right off. Tough deposits may require a stiff brush, so a nylon brush was also found to come in handy.
If we could only use one belly pan cleaner, this would be it. Overall this cleaner works as promoted and does a really good job at easily dissolving most of the crud on our bellypans and side panels. Some of the cooked-in oil deposits around the exhaust outlet are difficult for any cleaner to remove, and we sometimes will still resort to a combination of cleaners to fully finish the job, but we have found the Sled Brite cleaner to be a valuable addition to our arsenal of sled cleaning products. It seems to be some form of soap cleaner rather than a solvent, so we are more confident letting it contact our skin than with petroleum-based solvents. The 32-ounce bottle with sprayer lasts for quite a while and is modestly priced at $15.95. The one-gallon refill goes for only $24.95, so get together with your buds and save (best buy)!
Bio-Kleen offers a full line of snowmobile cleaning products, contact them at 800-240-5536 (269-567-9400) or visit www.sledbrite.com