Carb cleaning

[dwerbil]

Hey Ken, great to hear from you!

I bought a gallon of NAPA carb cleaner the other day; and per instruction, soaked each carb (parts too) for twenty minutes. After a through rinse, I did the carb cleaner spray, steel wire, and compressed air tricks to all little drilled passages here and there.

Since I never seem to have guitar string around, I've always used picture frame braided wire. In fact, I keep a bit of it in the bike's tool kits. Ken, as you may recall from the May '06 Boxerworks Forum Rally, Gerard from Florida came hobbling in on his ill-running airhead. It took a bit of time, but he and Larryfixit found the problem with one of those tiny holes being plugged.....

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[Deleted User 72]

.... Gerard from Florida came hobbling in on his ill-running airhead. It took a bit of time, but he and Larryfixit found the problem with one of those tiny holes being plugged.....

Ditto for me in '07. Yea, Larry.


Yea, Ken's back!

[Ken in Oklahoma]

. . . Ditto for me in '07. Yea, Larry . . .

I remember that Native. You were verrrrrry happy!

No moss grows on Larry Fixit. I see him as a sort of whirling dervish of airhead fixin' (or anything else that gets in his range, actually).

Ken

[Jean]

Use some fine copper wire next time to clean those little holes. STEEL wire CAN change the size and might raise a burr someplace where you don't want!
Unravel a piece of lamp wire for instance...or some other stranded flexible wire.

[dwerbil]

The RS is a-running fine now, other than sync'ing the carbs. Will do that tomorrow.

Geez...prices from Bing sure have jumped since I last needed to do a carb rebuild. I bought the basic gasket and o-ring set for two, along with two needles and jets and one set of floats. With freight, it was 150 bucks. Ouch!

[dwerbil]

Use some fine copper wire next time to clean those little holes. STEEL wire CAN change the size and might raise a burr someplace where you don't want!
Unravel a piece of lamp wire for instance...or some other stranded flexible wire.

What I've used is the flimsiest of wire. It's on the line of angel hair, so to speak.

[Deleted User 62]

Too late now, but next time check out the prices of carb rebuild gasket sets etc at www.EUBMW.com