Cooking your Carbs
Cooking your Carbs
I hope you guys find this info usefull I'm about to try this on an old set
of Kawi 500 triple carbs
http://www.jockeyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350
of Kawi 500 triple carbs
http://www.jockeyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350
A Yami ride a day keeps the dr away:)
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I have been using Yamaha carb cleaner for well over 40 uears.
The last time I went to the Yamaha shop to get a quart, they told me that they wern't going to sell it any more. I asked them why and the owner of the shop told me "We don't WANT you guys fixin up them old bikes...we want you in here buyin new ones"
I promptly told him to go F*ck himself and told everyone I knew about his silly ass.
You can get it on line though and it is truely the best way to clean carbs. period. end of story
The last time I went to the Yamaha shop to get a quart, they told me that they wern't going to sell it any more. I asked them why and the owner of the shop told me "We don't WANT you guys fixin up them old bikes...we want you in here buyin new ones"
I promptly told him to go F*ck himself and told everyone I knew about his silly ass.
You can get it on line though and it is truely the best way to clean carbs. period. end of story
Jim
Hey Kid...
Is my tail light still working?
"...you can't tune a motor that's hurt. They run much faster on fuel then they do on aluminum." - Elmer Trett
Hey Kid...
Is my tail light still working?
"...you can't tune a motor that's hurt. They run much faster on fuel then they do on aluminum." - Elmer Trett
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that guy isn't lying about that berrymann's cleaner...that stuff stinks to high heaven...i'll remember that technique next time i run across an old bike needing a home...
She said, "It's just a bike...It can be replaced...", and I said, "Good, now you and my bike have something in common...".
Matt
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2004 YAMAHA R1
Matt
NESBA #347
2004 YAMAHA R1
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I "cooked" my carb with the Yamaha carb cleaner. Damn that stuff is potent--toulene and all those other great carcinogenic solvents. Burns the skin on contact.
XT350 carb--pretty dirty, espeically in the float bowl. Did a good job of getting all the surface dirt and grim. Didn't do so well with some oxidation inside the bowl (had bowl removed). All the rubber and plastic pieces came out fine with the exception of a couple clear plastic drain hoses that went opaque and stiffened up (but still useable).
After cooking I funneled the soup back into a plactic jug--hope that stuff doesn't melt a hole in it.
Kontoboy
XT350 carb--pretty dirty, espeically in the float bowl. Did a good job of getting all the surface dirt and grim. Didn't do so well with some oxidation inside the bowl (had bowl removed). All the rubber and plastic pieces came out fine with the exception of a couple clear plastic drain hoses that went opaque and stiffened up (but still useable).
After cooking I funneled the soup back into a plactic jug--hope that stuff doesn't melt a hole in it.
Kontoboy
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I have always mixed yamaha carb cleaner 50/50 with water and put hte carbs in, heat to just before boil and hold there for twenty min.
Works a treat...
Works a treat...
Jim
Hey Kid...
Is my tail light still working?
"...you can't tune a motor that's hurt. They run much faster on fuel then they do on aluminum." - Elmer Trett
Hey Kid...
Is my tail light still working?
"...you can't tune a motor that's hurt. They run much faster on fuel then they do on aluminum." - Elmer Trett
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