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Todays crappy carb cleaner

68Moparmaniac

68Moparmaniac

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In the process of rebuilding the carb on the Power Wagon. Went to Autozone and picked up a fresh can of Berrymans carb cleaner...what a waste of 30 bucks. Put some parts in for an hour, still had carbon and drool deposits everywhere. I remember when you could buy carb cleaner and the soak wasn't more than 30 minutes, everything came out spotless. Todays ****...not so much.
Figured I'd put the Ultrasonic to work....
Wasted 30 bucks that could have went towards something beneficial...like beer :drinks:

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68Moparmaniac said:
In the process of rebuilding the carb on the Power Wagon. Went to Autozone and picked up a fresh can of Berrymans carb cleaner...what a waste of 30 bucks. Put some parts in for an hour, still had carbon and drool deposits everywhere. I remember when you could buy carb cleaner and the soak wasn't more than 30 minutes, everything came out spotless. Todays ****...not so much.
Figured I'd put the Ultrasonic to work....
Wasted 30 bucks that could have went towards something beneficial...like beer :drinks:

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Nice big ultrasonic. What do you use in it?
 
You were able to kill bees with one shot years ago. Now you have to spray a whole can just to give yourself enough time to run away before they shake it off and come at you... It's garbage.
 
toolmanmike said:
Nice big ultrasonic. What do you use in it?
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Boraxo / water most of the time but I thought I'd try some of this Ultrasonic concentrated cleaner that came with the machine... so far works really good. Parts are spotless, coming out of the tank around 160 degrees F.
 
68Moparmaniac said:
Boraxo / water most of the time but I thought I'd try some of this Ultrasonic concentrated cleaner that came with the machine... so far works really good. Parts are spotless, coming out of the tank around 160 degrees F.
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I have used a 10/1 mix of Simple Green but it leaves the carbs black. They have a different mix (Simple Green D) that isn't supposed to discolor the aluminum. Borax, I'll have to try that. Thanks.
 
My dad bought a 5 gallon can of Berrymans about 30 years ago. It’s still awesome! We had to transfer it to a plastic bucket because the metal one rusted. We just occasionally filter the crap out while transferring it to another bucket. All the additives that were in cleaners that made them work are long gone. Probably California’s fault :poke:
 
toolmanmike said:
I have used a 10/1 mix of Simple Green but it leaves the carbs black. They have a different mix (Simple Green D) that isn't supposed to discolor the aluminum. Borax, I'll have to try that. Thanks.
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Years ago an hour was plenty to clean a carb but, since they removed the ( I think) acid that did the work I leave them submerged for 24 hours and go right to the solvent tank to manually brush off the soot with solvent rinse. I used to do at least one carb rebuild a week. Now it's like 2 a year.
Mike
 
The trick with the "EPA-friendly" carb cleaner is....don't let the carb get so dirty:p
Then it works fine!
 
That carb looks great. Is that CO-Z ultrasonic cleaner the 2L model?
 
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