What is the ratio of pinesol to water for this? How long should they soak? I tried soaking the float bowls as a trial, and left it for a week. It still needed some elbow-grease to get it out.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Kevin Green <[email protected]> wrote: > The pinesol worked very well for me, just be patient. The reason to use the > pinesol and not carb cleaner is mostly the safety to rubber. The pinesol > doesn't hurt rubber like carb cleaner does, and if your carb is as terribly > gunked up as mine was, I couldn't get it apart far enough to get all the > rubber parts out, so pinesol let me soak and it slowly (and I mean really > slowly) cleaned things until I could get it apart the rest of the way. It > also meant I could leave it on the rack and not damage the rubber in the > passage connecting the carbs together so I didn't have to do a total > breakdown and resync. If you have time (and I did because the whole rest of > the bike was apart anyways) and/or you don't want to totally disassemble the > carbs pinesol really works very well. Now I still used some locally applied > spray carb cleaner to certain areas and on the small jets and such to really > clean them up spotless and clear the tiny passages of the jets. > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Hanghank <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I wasn’t sure if you meant “marriage” as in two spouses, or “mirage”, as >> in illusion........ >> Oops........ just realized they are the same............. ;~) >> >> From: [email protected] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:30 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [Nighthawk Lovers] Carb Cleaners >> >> Dont forget that it also cures aids, cancer, erectile dysfunction, old >> age, and marrage! >> >> >> >> ---Original Message--- >> From: [email protected] >> Sent: 3/28/2012 11:05 am >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Carb Cleaners >> >> Ron, >> Seafoam will clean your carbs, your prostate, your spleen, >> liver, heart valves and even restore hair from balding heads. >> :-) >> You've stumbled on a running group joke :-) >> And yes - I run it in my bike! >> -Joey >> >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Pastor Ron <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I looked at some of the old threads on cleaning the carbs with Pinesol. >> > I >> > could not find anything. I don't understand why they use this rather >> > than >> > carb cleaners. Are they still taking the carb all apart with Pinesol? >> > >> > Is Seafoam safe on Motorcycles? One guy told me a while back that it >> > eats >> > the rubber parts. What's the verdict? >> > >> > Ron >> > >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > > > > -- > Kevin Green - Orlando, FL > --------------------------------- > 1982 Honda Nighthawk 450 - CB450SC > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
