What is the best thing for soaking a carby in

inflight · 10 January 2009, 03:07

i have a carby thats giving me grief and would like to know what is the best thing to leave the carby soaking in to help clean it

Locozodiac · 10 January 2009, 03:42

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Originally Posted by inflight

i have a carby thats giving me grief and would like to know what is the best thing to leave the carby soaking in to help clean it

You should remove any plastic/nylon parts fron carbie before soaking for long periods of time, depending how difficult is what you want to clean, remove, penetrate, try: spray carb cleaner, acrylic thinner, brake fluid, W-40.

Happy Boating

inflight · 10 January 2009, 05:35

Thankyou very much Locozodiac i will try the thinners best regards

BassBoy · 10 January 2009, 06:25

Coke!

Honest. Had a 90 2 stroke Yam a few years ago with carb trouble. Engineers dunked carbs in cola over night and they came out good as new. No issue wih plastic bits.

Turbodiesel · 10 January 2009, 20:13

Quicksilver Powertune.

Nos4r2 · 10 January 2009, 20:29

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Originally Posted by Turbodiesel

Quicksilver Powertune.

Seconded.

codprawn · 11 January 2009, 00:24

I use brake cleaner or electrical cleaning solvent - it's the same stuff. Petrol is pretty good as well.

JSP · 11 January 2009, 11:55

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Originally Posted by codprawn

I use brake cleaner or electrical cleaning solvent - it's the same stuff. Petrol is pretty good as well.

Yeah soaking in petrol works well (well it did on cars anyway)