Cleaning a carb

pinball · Oct 27, 2017

I AM GOING TO INSTALL A CARB KIT IN MY MARVEL CARB. What do you all use to soak/clean it in. thanks Norm

M-MAN · Oct 27, 2017

I just use brake cleaner, Use tig tip cleaners in all the holes.

old · Oct 27, 2017

I use Berryman's chem dip on my carbs but I have a can of it that is 10 plus years old and is a lot better then the newer stuff is. I also use carb kits I get from O'Reilly's auto parts. They are better then the kit from TSC and only cost around $20

Part Time Pete · Oct 27, 2017

I knew an old timer that used to boil them in ATF - of course, you need an outdoor burner of some sort

Dick L · Oct 27, 2017

I boil all of the carburetors in water with full load liquid laundry detergent. Softens up all the gunk so the carburetor cleaner can do its job easier. I am not a big fan of ATF as some are.

retired farmer · Oct 27, 2017

I just put them in a metal coffee can and cover it in lacquer thinner for about twenty four hours and throw the dirty stuff out and refill with clean thinner and swirl it around to clean out the rest of the dirt and blow it off good with air.

WGM · Oct 27, 2017

Boil it in Simple Green and then let it set for 24 hours. Then flush it with clean water and blow it out with compressed air. Good to go then.

RLA · Oct 27, 2017

Everyone has their methods... What I started to do is Easy Off Oven cleaner.
It will eat the gaskets out of the way, doesn't hurt rubber, I use a whole can
on a carb, put it cover'd in a plastic bucket. I then rinse off & Boil it.
Blow dry. most of the time every brass screw/plug backs right out easy..

Hobo,NC · Oct 27, 2017

The latest greatest thing on the net is Pine-sol, I cleaned a MS this week end in Mean Green because a bottle was staring at me. I dropped a nasty carb coated with years of grease in it a day later had a clean carb. I was impressed

If the good stuff was a available again I don't think I would use that nasty stuff.

I put the Mean Green in a plastic jar some reaction was always going on. I set it in the sun the can was rather warmer than just sitting in the sun. I think it was having a reaction to the brass but none was affected by it. The original carb ended up with a lite brass tint to it tho....

rustred · Oct 27, 2017

in actual kleen-flo carb cleaner in gallon can. removes all carbon just by soaking. then rinse with cool water and blow all passages out.

Super H Mike · Oct 27, 2017

On my last small engine carb I tried soaking in E85 as suggested on this forum, it worked well, but took a couple days to completely clean it up. It did well on that green gooey stuff that forms on carbs that don't get used much.

Cleaning a carb

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