John, what kind of soap are you using?  Don't tell me standard dishwasher soap.  That stuff will tear the hell out of aluminum.  I once had a the Wife/GF (no, I'm not saying which!) put one of those expensive aluminum pans in the machine and the lye in the soap stripped the anodization off and then pitted the hell out of it.  I'd be real careful about regular dish soap.  It won't damage the metal and it will cut the grease but it's meant to bubble and suds and your machine will spit bubbles and suds if you put just a little in there.  Just my 2 cents

TJ

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:49:49 -0700
From: John Connolly
Subject: Re: Engine Case Cleaning

One trick is after you are done cleaning it, put the case halfs in the
dishwasher (when wifey/GF is not home).

this won't help with the pitting it appears you have, but I thought I'd
throw this procedure out anyways.

John
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