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Post by bagman » Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:57 pm

right....i was going to have a go at stripping and cleaning my carbs, after taking the float bowl off i have found a complete mess.
obviously the petrol has turned to varnish, but also the black plastic caps have melted :shock: soooooo, anyone on here fancy a challenge? or is the someone that can be recommended to do a strip down, sonic cleaned and rebuild?

what sort of cost would this be aswell?

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Re: carbs

Post by Kryten » Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:59 pm

Hi

pretty much had the same situation on Skruffy Kat. The old petrol had dissolved the little rubber bungs.

At the time I had access to a hooge sonic cleaner, so dropped the whole bank in the bath and over a period of days cleaned them out. I then rebuilt them with the kits available from NRP (KOC discount) had all the bits I needed.

But before I fitted them to the bike I set them up on the workbench and filled them with 50-1 2 stroke mix. Because it was a vivid pink colour. Good job realy as the "nipples" connecting the carb bodies leaked profusely :roll:

So I separated the bodies and replaced all the O rings. They went back together easy enough, just need to balance them up now. Be aware that the screws holding the bodies together a thread locked and a quality screw removing device should be used. Also thread lock them on re-assembly.

As for other people doing the job- I have heard someone quote about 25 squid per carb, but not sure who. You could try CC's

http://www.carbcleaning.com/index.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

not used them so cannot say either way. but they have been used by some of the magazines
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Post by Kryten » Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:03 pm

Oh yeah.

I'm glad to see you using the rubber/nitrile gloves.

And Scotchbrite the alloy, it comes up a treat
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Post by bagman » Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:08 pm

cheers buddy ;)

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Post by Pop-Kat » Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:25 pm

I got the bungs from Robinsons, think they were about £12 posted.

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Re: carbs

Post by fossie » Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:20 pm

Nrp usually does the jets and bungs for a tener or so a carb.
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Re: carbs

Post by bagman » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:00 am

thanks guys, i'll get on it...

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