new use for carb-cleaner dip buckets

[Soundguy]

I was out servicing my jd batwing mower and decided to check the vent plugs on the 4 gear boxes. As i suspected.. all 4 were plugged. Also noticed that the vent plug is the dip stick, and one was broke off.

I figured i would just buy 4 more, as soaking them in naptha so far had not cleaned them out.. then found out that the little buggers are 13$ each from jd.. so.. I only bought one, to replace the broken one.

I then remembered my bucket of carb dip.. tossed the remaining 3 in the bucket.. droppe din.. let them set 5 minutes, came back, and dried them, then used compresses air to blow thru the hollow dipstick, and lo and behold.. the bubbles under the vent cap.. where they had been plugged solid before. All 3 cleaned up this way.

That carb cleaner dip must be good stuff. I had tried naptha and spray carb cleaner and neaither had cleaned out those vent caps.

Soundguy

 

[PineRidge]

I'm not old enough to know what a carburetor is, is that some kind of new fangled fuel injector? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Piedmont3]

Yes,
They say they are going to make 2 kinds with either 2 or 4 barrels on them, although I don't know how they are going to have room for even 1 barrel in the engine compartment of most cars these days.
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[Farwell]

All this talking about barrels made me think, how is a person going to get more than two 55 gallon barrels under their hood?
It took me two weeks to get the two I have under there now. Sure makes my car run better and much faster. Makes me think of the Red and Green show.
Farwell

 

[texbaylea]

Back in the days when I kept a bucket of carb cleaner on hand my wife would bring out baking pans that had burned on grease. They would come out looking new. She would then run them twice through the dishwasher to be sure all the residual chemicals were off.

I am thinking about getting another bucket but it has become so expensive.

Vernon