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3A, 3B, DJ Technical Knowledge Base => "Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations => Topic started by: Carls_jeep on November 22, 2010, 09:18:00 PM
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I bought a gallon can of Gunk carb cleaner and it is nearly worthless. I suspect the Berryman is just as worthless. I had a gallon that I had for many years and it was getting to where it didn't do a good job so I discarded it. I bet I never can get anything that will really clean a carb now.
Does anyone know of a carb cleaner that you soak the parts in that really works?
I need something to soak the brass jets in that will remove the dirty film and not hurt the brass and also clean the carb bodies.
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I believe the gallon can I have is Chem-Dip, made by Berryman, if memory serves. But I've had it for a few years, the composition may have changed with the new stuff.
It worked REALLY well on my carb; but I'll give you a llittle advice: DON'T soak your parts overnight !! It turns the carb body black as night !! I spent quite a while with a wire "toothbrush" scraping all the black off. I did the parts in a 20 minute soak, check, resoak if needed. Came out looking brand new. The last part I plopped in was the main body. Went to sleep. Next morning I did the uh-oh, went into the garage, pulled the basket, it was black. Lotta rubbing after that !!
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Yes, that's true with the old type cleaners. You only need to soak them for less than an hour. On another site they said the Berryman is still the good stuff. I will look for some. I am trying to return the Gunk junk as it is worthless.
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When I rebuilt my carb, I used Permatex gasket remover. I had to strip some powder coat off a wheel and an old timer pointed me to that stuff. Worked great. When it came time to rebuild my carb, I had the same problem with the new carb "cleaners" that you had and I thought of the gasket remover. While it didn't work as good as the old carb cleaners, it did work pretty good if you sprayed the parts down and scrubbed on them with a toothbrush.
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I just bought a can of the Berryman cleaner so I will see how good it works now.
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I too recently bought a gallon can of Gunk carb and parts cleaner to clean an outboard carb. � Based on its high price and the assertions of the parts man that it was the strongest stuff made, I thought it would eat anything clean. In fact, I was a little scrared that it might harm the metal parts. I could just imagine them dissolving in this strong solvent. �I soaked the parts for an hour. �Nothing. �I soaked them overnight, still nothing, � After a couple days I went back to the autoparts store and bought the aerosol type carb and choke cleaner in the can with the little red spray tube. �The spray can worked ten times better than the expensive gallon. � I would never waste my money on the gunk gallon soak can again.
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This is all you need to know about why it doesn't work:
Environmental Carburetor and Parts Dip
We can all thank California for the re-formulation. � >:(
Larry
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After soaking a carb body in the Berryman cleaner over night and most the day it came acceptably clean. I have two more of the body parts soaking now. I also took the acetone out of the ultrasonic cleaner and put soap and water in to see if that works better on the jets.
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If you leave the parts in the Berryman 12 hours or more it gets them relatively clean. I have all the body parts clean now and am trying the brass jets and small parts now.
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:'( well, bummer, I got my portable air tank to charge the bladder on the home water pump and, GEEZ, :o �there's a can of Gunk carb cleaner I bought and forgot about, aw man, now what the heck am I going to do with TWO cans of useless cleaner. Maybe they will take one of them back �:-/.