<VV> CARB / PARTS IN GENERAL CLEANING

[George Jones]

OK, since we're tossing carb tips around....

When I rebuild carbs, I coat both sides of the paper gaskets with
"ChapStick". I've never had a problem taking the carbs apart later, no
matter how long they've been sitting or in use. It's not that I'm too cheap
to buy new gaskets, I just hate scraping the old gasket off the surface of
the carbs!

George Jones
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Eastern Division Director,
Corvair Society of America (CORSA)
Performance Corvair Group
Central Florida Corvair Club (Since 2009)
Tidewater Corvair Club (since 1987)
Central Virginia Corvair Club (since 2006)
CORSA (since 1987)
'65 Monza Crown V8 Convertible
'66 Monza Coupe Custom


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:03 PM, corvairduval at cox.net
<corvairduval at cox.net>wrote:

> While at Wally World, pick up their spray lubricant, tech something, and
> use it to lube inside carbs you are not putting into service right away.
> Especially the accelerator pump. This tip from another Corvair carb
> rebuilder in this area.
>
> Frank DuVal
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Mark Durham 62vair at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:29:38 -0700
> To: N2VZD at aol.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> CARB / PARTS IN GENERAL CLEANING
>
>
> My cleaning product is Gunk Carb Cleaner CC3K, I buy from Ace Hardware. You
> purchase on line at ace's site and it is shipped to the local ACE free and
> you pick it up. Comes with a little parts bucket in a 1 gallon container.
> And, I use a water rinse then blow dry, and spray with Wally World brake
> cleaner, its cheap and removes moisture and oily films well, then blow dry.
>
> Mark Durham
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:56 AM, <N2VZD at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > i do use a small (1 gallon ) container of real CARB cleaner (mine happens
> > to be a berryman's product ) available for about $20.00. NAPA , AUTOZONE
> > and ADVANCED AUTO , among many others have these available.  i  also use
> > another gallon can of lacquer thinner  as a rinse tank.  then  i blow
> them
> > with
> > higher pressure air to final clean. yes , it is not an approved  way (or
> > safe!) , but it has worked well for me a long time on the worst looking
> >  carbs
> > out there.
> > all of my hardware and other small parts now go in a cheap harbor freight
> > gem tumbler with good results , even on ugly stuff. then i put a coating
> of
> > artists clear (does not seem to yellow much) on them. this includes all
> the
> >  small screws and linkage parts from carburetors.
> > i have a large 6 gallon of parts cleaner , along with a homebrew parts
> > washer sink that do a lot of my other parts. and then there is the blast
> > cabinet..ugh!!!, very messy work , but results are showing on a few
> winning
> > corvairs out there somewhere.
> > now on to my own non show corvairs again soon.
> > regards, tim colson
> >
>
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