Cleaning carb.

[bsr]

How do you clean the carb. ? My friend just takes his of and squirts it out with carb. cleaner and gasoline, is this bad for it ? I know this works because there was sand in the bottom of the bucket.

[bsr]

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[Foxrage]

I just take the carb apart and spray everything out with carberator cleaner and an air hose.

on all of my old carbs i would boil them in water and then blow them out with air

[bsr]

Boil it in water ?? are you nutz, wont that mess it up

it never messed any of them up..my friend that races late model stock cars told me to and then blow them out with a compressor

[Nausty]

i heard you NEVER mix gas with water thats why it costs so much to have your gas tank cleaned out if it got water in there.

while i've always done it to my snowmobile carbs and some of my dirtbike carbs an it cleans the passage ways out..but you do have to take it apart and get the water out

[bsr]

I just didnt want to mess any of the jets up, or get carb. cleaner and gasoline in the air intakes. What should I watch out for when taking it apart & cleaning ?

just do it where you can't lose small parts and make sure you put everything back where it came from