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Post by dancbx on Dec 5, 2010 9:23:45 GMT -5
Carb cleaning made easy- Chem Dip by Berryman, 1 gallon can. It comes complete with a basket and is water soluble. This stuff is great, I have used this with great success on muliple carbs.
If whatever you have is running, but the fuel mix isn't right I 'll always try Sea foam mixed with gas first. Run it a awhile let it sit overnight and run it again. Becareful on the mix you don't want to thin it out to much especially if it 100 degs. out. I've had great success with this too and use this instead of Sta-bil for storage.
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Post by 925fetish on Dec 5, 2010 13:53:58 GMT -5
All good.
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Post by snoghost13 on Dec 8, 2010 19:15:49 GMT -5
SeaFoam is great but about a year ago everyone raised their prices to almost $10 a can around here. Since then, I have been using the B-12 Chemtool and it seems to be just as good. For half the price of SeaFoam, you might want to give it a shot sometime. Most auto parts stores carry the B-12 as well as the WalMarts (in my area at least).
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Post by dancbx on Dec 8, 2010 21:24:24 GMT -5
Thanks $10 a can yikes, most expensive here is about $6.50! keep your prices down there!
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Post by snoghost13 on Dec 9, 2010 1:31:29 GMT -5
At $6.50 I almost want to have you ship me a case but doubt with shipping it would be any cheaper!
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kminaf
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Post by kminaf on Feb 10, 2011 10:46:59 GMT -5
How much are you mixing in with the fuel? Is this a gasoline/Seafoam mix or premix/Seafoam mix?
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Post by dancbx on Feb 14, 2011 13:07:15 GMT -5
How much are you mixing in with the fuel? Is this a gasoline/Seafoam mix or premix/Seafoam mix? I use about an ounce/ gal. the instructions are on the can. I mix it with the premix. works great.
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Post by riseandrun on Nov 5, 2012 18:04:17 GMT -5
I know this is an old post, but going to try my carb. question here since I think it still applies. When you clean the carb with spray, are you being real careful to not get any of the spray on the gaskets that go in between the pieces of the carb body? I've taken a few apart to a certain extent, and if they aren't looking too bad I try cleaning them with a spray can but always worry about the carb spray deforming the gaskets. What say the pro's? I'm only a tinkerer. I have a 150 automatic tore apart right now because I wasn't getting any gas. I pulled the line out of the tank and tried blowing through it to see if there was resistance, but I now know the resistence I found is probably normal. Still the whole saw needed cleaning. Thanks all!
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Post by Brian VT on Nov 5, 2012 20:03:15 GMT -5
You need to disassemble the carb. to clean it (unless the saw is running and you want to try the Seafoam trick). Get a "carb. kit" before you disassemble it, disassemble completely, spray all orfices with carb. cleaner (or soak it in PineSol and then spray), and reassemble with new gaskets, etc. There's lots of videos you can watch on cleaning chainsaw carbs.
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Post by riseandrun on Nov 5, 2012 20:35:02 GMT -5
Thanks Brian, that's what I eventually did. I took everything apart until I had just metal and spray caned it and air compressored it. I was hesitant to pull the gasket material off because I didn't want to rip it if it was glued on. (I was going the cheap route since I've been tinkering with it this afternoon.) Happy to report that it's running great. I got this through craigs list a few years ago. It looked like it has had very little use. The decals even look good! Thanks for the reply. Appreciate the video tip too. I didn't even think about utube.
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