Can easystart be used to spray in carb ?

[rmurphy16]

My carbs dirty, only thing i have is easy start, can this be used?
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r.murphy

[Kickstart]

Hi

Do you want to use it to clean the carb or just start the engine?

Can be used to start the engine (some say not to be used in 2 squeaks though). However I think it would probably be fairly useless as a carb cleaner. Evaporates very quickly.

All the best

Keith
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[rmurphy16]

Hi,

i was hoping it could be used as a carb cleaner i'm about to take my carb off in a sec, was going to clean main jet and float bowl,

should i spray the easystart on them, and anywhere else?

thanks

Ryan
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r.murphy

[Raffles]

[Kickstart]

Hi

I wouldn't expect it to work well for cleaning things. A can of brake cleaner would probably be more effective (although I would take care with using it on plastic and rubber components).

If there is just dirt in there then anything will flush it away (including WD40). However if you have dried fuel inside the jets I would doubt that the easy start would stay liquid long enough to have any significant effect dissolving on it.

All the best

Keith
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[Teflon-Mike]

If your carbs need 'cleaning' as in jets unblocking, then squirting stuff in the choke really isn't going to do much.
Dont know what carb it is, but its no mamoth and complicated task to take the carb off, and wip the float-bowl off, remove petrol residues with deturgent and an old tooth-brush, blow throuh the jets and re-assemble, if needs with a new float-bowl gasket cut from a cornflake packet (DO NOT use squeezee gasket unless you like petrol leaks and more clogged jets and valves!)
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[rmurphy16]

[Kickstart]

Hi

To generally flush things out it should be fine. However with carbs often the problem is old fuel that has dried and left a hard varnish like residue. Dissolving and removing this is difficult and I suspect WD40 wouldn't be that effective

All the best

Keith
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[rmurphy16]

I'll try tooth brush, and see how i get on, hopefully works

Thanks for the help.
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