The Pine-Sol carburetor cleaning thread, You can have clean carbs with that fresh pine scent! Options

[Mark Henry]

With the release bearing exploding in my '67 bus, taking out the pressure plate I decided now was the time to clean and service my Weber 42 DCNF's...of course I got carried away and had to clean my /6 40 IDA's as well. I've been reading on the internet (and I've heard mention of it here) about using Pine-Sol cleaner to clean carbs, so I felt i'd document my job for this site.

Pro's: it's very cheap and most important it cleans like a champ!. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)
It's amazing how well it works in all the nooks and crannies.
Although it's slightly caustic it's no where near as nasty as most carb cleaning chemicals and it doesn't seem to hurt rubber parts like diaphragms.
Nice fresh pine scent .
Big safety plus it's Nonflammable!

Con's: It does seem to react with cadmium plating, it doesn't seem to bother the Weber plated parts too much, but my Gene Berg DCNF stacks really reacted to it.
Leaves a film on brass parts, remove them or you have to polish them afterwards, but it does not harm them.
It smell's like pine, real strong, in fact it smells like the janitors room. If you have an attached garage I'd do it outside.
You will get it on you and you will also smell Pine-Sol fresh, wear the gloves and some old clothes.
Loses it's "oomph" after about 3 days, I got 3 carbs done.
You must fully immerse the parts or it can leave a scum line.
You really need a compressor to blow out the passages when done.

No real rocket science here, I got the Pine-Sol and mixed it 2 parts Pine Sol to 1 part water. I used 4 liters (quarts) of pinesol. I found that this plastic waste basket was just the perfect size for the IDA /6 carbs. I had a handful of latex gloves, a couple of toothbrushes, some tools, compressor,
a table and a bag of rags.
You must throughly rinse with water and dry (blow out) the carbs when done.

[zymurgist]

Cool! I'll be doing this for the Yamaha... as soon as the weather turns foul and I can't ride my own bike. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)