Lots of great ideas guys! And priced right too, thats my kind of shopping.
Pertaining to the Seafoam suggestion in dealing with the above mentioned carburator..... would one use this as "dunk and soak" solution, or running it through with the fuel, or ?
Appreciating all interest shown in this thread!
Thanx again
LEBBY
Lebby - I'd start with dosing the fuel tank at the prescribed rate on the can, and topping up the tank with gas, to get things mixed up decently. Ackward sentence... but you get the idea......
Then run the tractor enough, or work with it, to get the dosed fuel into the carb. I'd run it like that, on and off for a week or 3, and see how it goes.
Unless the above approach doesn't help, I'm loathe to start tearing into old carbs w/o a ready stash of spare parts at hand, or at least readily available.
I've never had to use Seafoam for concentrated dunking/soaking. On that subject, I'd (1) ping Seafoam themselves for info, and (2) pop into one of the Seafoam threads on here, and ask for opinions on soak/dunk on there.
At the prescribed "Normal" gas/Seafoam ratios, I don't see a problem with Soak/Dunk. There
may be a problem with soaking a carb (re. specific seal/gasket materials) in
super-high concentrations of Seafoam - that's what I don't know enough about.
Seafoam is good stuff, and very easy peasey to use as a first-pass correction attempt. Just wanted to put a bit of context on the Soaking issue..... wouldn't want anybody to run off and soak a carb in pure Seafoam and end up ruining some funky seal that's been out of production for 10+ years.....
Rgds, D.