Cleaning oil stains off the driveway?

[ballardcruiser]

Anyone have any tips or must-have products for fixing the damage done by a leaky Cruiser to a perfectly nice driveway? Fiancee is getting upset. I think the FJ62 is going to end up on the street (no, I haven't fixed the leak).

Driveway is made of paver stones. Do any of the chemical/liquid products at the auto parts store work? Should I rent a pressure washer too? Anything?

 

[Wile E Coyote]

Paver stones? Yer outta luck, bro. Pavers=mucho porouso=no bueno cleano. You'll get the surface stuff, and that's all. Try good ole Dawn dish-detergent, or any ole powder laundry soap made into a slurry. Any pressure washer worth a darn would easily chunk the pavers in spots if you got too aggressive.

 

[MoJ]

I had good luck with a product I bought at Autozone. It's called "Super Clean" and it comes in a 1-ga purple jug. It did a good job of getting an oil stain out of our driveway that was left by a family member who stayed for the weekend. Pour it on full strength and let it sit, scrub with a stiff plastic bristle brush, rinse and repeat. It's biodegradeable. For something as porous as pavers you might try letting it sit for a long time, scrubbing, and then using an absorbent towel to soak it up.

Second option, drill into the paver, insert a masonary screw, pull it up, and replace with a new one.

 

[Blue77FJ40]

Do NOT use that stuff with bare hands. That s*** was so strong, it peeled the paint off the cruiser frame and turned my hands into red, meaty pulp. Took me 3 wks to heal. I went back to Simple Green for degreasing the undercarraige. Takes an extra application to remove grease/oil, but well worth it.

You can also slip a large piece of cardboard under the cruiser as a precaution until leak is fixed.

 

[FJ60Cam]

I've had good luck with brake cleaner. Maybe you could just flip the pavers over?

 

[Brentbba]

Decent results with an oil stain remover I bought at costco years ago. 1 gal jug that I still have most of. Brake cleaner is a good alternative that removes oil from parts. Don't know about pavers tho.

 

[webelk6]

I have used a product that contains living bacteria. It eats grease and oil. Just wet the surface, let it do its thing, (hours), then powerwash off.

 

[4xoddic]

My BIL showed his prowess:

Kitty litter on oil stain, then sand litter into surface with a wooden block. Works well on concrete, no experience with this trick on stone.

 

[webelk6]

My BIL showed his prowess:

Kitty litter on oil stain, then sand litter into surface with a wooden block. Works well on concrete, no experience with this trick on stone.

Another trick is oil dry with the same results. And it does work.

 

[calstyl2]

Try laundry soap, dry grannuals, works really well for black oil stains, 80%+ removed, and cheap too

 

[Tools R Us]

Be careful laundry or any other powerful soap, they tend to bleach concrete. Depending on the dye in the paver stones it may change their color, test somewhere where it doesn't matter.