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Re: Green Machine
The first surprise upon disassembly was with the primary metering rods. One looked OK but the second was cocked at an odd angle. It turns out whoever put it together last let the rod slip out of the jet and bent it into the bottom of the bowl! Several trips to different shops later I had a replacement set.
Several more hours with the brushes in the parts washer produced a passably clean carb, but I knew I could do better: time to break out the big guns!
the 10L ultrasonic tank! I got this thing to clean vinyl records, believe it or not. It's a heated unit and I used plain ol' tap water and some water based degreaser as a surfactant.
I heated it up to 50 C, ran each major piece of the carb through a 15 minute ultrasonic cycle and, even though id spent hours on these pieces in the scrub tank, here's the results... not to bad!
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