cleaning a carburetor

pinball · Aug 8, 2019

would it hurt a carb body to put it in a pan and boil it to clean it out.

rustred · Aug 8, 2019

if your talking about boiling it in water, that is definitely no. you need to soak it in carburetor cleaner. plus the passages must be blown out with air after rinsing it with water.

Royse · Aug 8, 2019

What kind of carb and what material is it made of?
I regularly boil the old cast Marvel Schebler carbs.
It helps free up the brass jets from the cast to get them out.
An aluminum Holley? I might take a different approach.

rustred · Aug 8, 2019

this stuff
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Bob · Aug 8, 2019

(quoted from post at 22:28:38 08/08/19) if your talking about boiling it in water, that is definitely no. you need to soak it in carburetor cleaner. plus the passages must be blown out with air after rinsing it with water.

Some folks have reported good luck with boiling carbs in water with Tide washing machine powder.

I've tried it and wasn't real impressed, but on the other hand, it did no harm either, and as Royse said, boiling them does seem to help loosen up parts.

Moonlite37 · Aug 9, 2019

Years ago, that was all they had, The heavy cast Iron ones were boiled in lye water. I guess it worked until something else came along. I boiled brake master cylinders in lye water

Geo-TH,In · Aug 9, 2019

My boy's honda motorcycle had a carb full of mouse pee and poo. Water was the only thing to clean it out. Regular carb cleaners didn't work.
So best answer to your question is what are you trying to get rid of?
Rust, NO. Dried up gasoline, doubtful.
Boiling things in carb cleaners was common back in the day to clean engine blocks and carbs.
I use carb cleaner in a spray can and air pressure to clean carbs.

John M · Aug 9, 2019

I would not have believed it unless I had done it for myself, but Pine Sol works very well for cleaning carbs. I used the real stuff, not a store brand, and put all the parts to a carb from my M in a pan I have, completely covered the carb in Pine Sol, and let it soak for a couple of days. I washed it off with water, and used the spray can carb cleaner more or less to just flush out the water from the passages, put the kit in and it worked great.

showcrop · Aug 9, 2019

It won't hurt it a bit. When you take an engine to be rebuilt an early step in the process is to boil the block out in hot caustic solution. In order to insure that it doesn't rust, all you need to do is rinse it thoroughly in clean water then in a solvent such as alcohol to remove any water.

Part Time Pete · Aug 9, 2019

My brother in-law used to boil them in ATF

rustyfarmall · Aug 9, 2019

(quoted from post at 20:25:26 08/08/19) would it hurt a carb body to put it in a pan and boil it to clean it out.

I have done that many times. Even added some detergent. The carburetor does not come out clean, but the gooey crud is all dried up and easily removed with aerosol carb cleaner and compressed air.

Mark-Ia · Aug 9, 2019

Pine-Sol work good and cheap.

OregonAaron · Aug 10, 2019

Pinesol worked amazing on my aluminum snow machine carbs. Clean enough to eat off. I used boiling water, but didn't boil the carb.

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