I too have used pine-sol, but I have noticed that it leaves a noticeable finish on the aluminum of the carb bodies, and if you let it -dry- on them you get all kinds of weird deposits. I know it wasn't anything in the water (I did dilute it, 1:3 water:PS) because I bought distilled water.
Pine Sol in an ultrasonic cleaner works a treat. I must not know what Yamalube is, I though it was a grease? Confusion. Some carbs have a mid-range jet. I don't speak carb, I swear at carbs. I speak injection. The masochist in me wants to put Bosch K-Jet on a bike, maybe an old Goldwing or something. -Kurt On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:37 PM, EGrider <[email protected]> wrote: > Joey, I actually have used PineSol -- straight up, no chaser. And I > found....contrary to what some people would have you believe...that it > worked great! It went a long way toward getting my carbs clean, and it's > dirt cheap. However, I followed it up with Yamalube. Getting the dirt and > grease off the carbs keeps my Yamalube cleaner, and it ain't cheap.In fact, > it's about $16 a quart. The good thing about Yamalube is that it does not > harm rubber, so you don't have to worry about the o-rings as you would with > a carb dip like Berriman's. If I don't break the rack, it avoids all manner > of problems, not the least of which is finding the right sized o-rings and > getting the butterflies back correctly. . > > One more quick point...The carbs I've seen have only two jets per se -- > "idle" or "slow" jets and main jets. You've all probably seen this, but > I'll attach a gif that shows at which point in the throttle turn each part > works. According to this, when the throttle is all the way off, the only > thing letting anything in is the mixture screw setting. The slow jet > doesn't kick in until 3/16 turn. I personally don't know what a "throttle > valve cutaway" is. Maybe someone does. > > Dang, I wish Allen could chime in here and gently tell me I don't know > what I'm talking about again. I guess I'm just an old softy, but his > passing just hurts. I think about it every day. Nobody said life was fair, > and nobody was right. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
