main jet removal

reomack · Mar 23, 2019

I am in the process of rebuilding my tsx 33 using the complete kit from this sites sponsor. I am having a very difficult time getting the main jet out and was wondering whether one of the carb gurus would share some of their hard earned expertise with me. I have modified a screwdriver to fit the passageway and the slots in the jet and have sprayed the jet with PB Blaster but am still having on luck.

JMOR · Mar 23, 2019

try boiling it and then try after it cools a bit. If can't remove w/o destroying it, then don't, since the area under it is very small and can be probed thru it as well as thru main power adjust seat. No real need to remove it.

Royse · Mar 23, 2019

Boiling it would be my recommendation as well.
If they're not already buggered up, they will usually turn out then.
Try boiling it more than once if you still have trouble.

If you are not set up to drill them out and chase the threads,
then as JMOR said, leave it in and probe the holes.
It's not ideal, but far better than ruining the carb body.

reomack · Mar 23, 2019

Thanks. I will try the boiling trick, just hope SWMBO doesn't get too aggravated when I break out one of her pots to do it.

Royse · Mar 23, 2019

"just hope SWMBO doesn't get too aggravated when I break out one of her pots to do it."

Any old roaster pan will work. Flea market, GoodWill, dollar store.
I would think a disposable one would work, though I've not tried that.
Doesn't even have to have a lid. Cover it with tin foil to keep heat in.
If you have a side burner on a gas grill, that works well to heat them.
Just don't let it boil over or you have a mess to clean. So I'm told.

Hobo,NC · Mar 24, 2019

If I have to go that far I drop it in an old MR. Coffee pot with dollar tree pine sol... I have brewed them a week when not in a hurry overnite usually does it tho..

I am not doing this to get the jets out just a basic clean jets in are out its way better than that stink'N so called good carb cleaner that I don't miss at all...

hunkydory · Mar 24, 2019

(quoted from post at 18:04:39 03/23/19) Thanks. I will try the boiling trick, just hope SWMBO doesn't get too aggravated when I break out one of her pots to do it.

SWMBO offers me her old cookware when it has reached its perceived end-of-life. It's handy to have old pots and pans around for a variety of cleaning tasks, and helps avoid those painful "WTH are you DOING?!"/"WTH have you DONE?!" conversations. :lol:

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