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Originally Posted by "music man":13aelp37
because it will ruin anything like that it comes in contact with.
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That generalization is just not true. It depends on what KIND of carb. cleaner you use and how you use it. The stuff is not intended to be used full strength and actually works better if mixed at least 50/50 with gas for soaking.
If it were true, everybody who put Seafoam in their gas would end up with a ruined carb.........and probably other parts along the gas line too. Stuff designed to be mixed with the gas should NOT be a problem......unless maybe you are working on a vehicle that is 50 years old.
There are cleaners out there intended for "professional" use only and with that stuff, all bets are off.
Having said all that........if you have it all apart anyway, why would you put the rubber parts in the cleaner in the first place ??? :roll:[/quote:13aelp37]
:facepalm: First of all, I only specified using it in ONE WAY, and that was TAKING YOUR CARB OFF, and TAKING IT APART, Second, if you were to put your carb in a bucket of seafoam or berrymans, and left any rubber parts on it, the same thing would probably happen, and it is going to be really difficult to dilute "carb cleaner" in your gas tank if you take off the carb, I doubt that is gonna clean the carb you have sitting on your work table. I have seen hundreds of carbs and gas tanks that looked like someone poured a can of varnish in it (that is what happens to gas when it gets old) and stank like rotten eggs, and just pouring a little dash of seafoam/gas mixed together in it ain't gonna cut it.
And I have seen plenty of carbs that were so gunked up that even sitting in a bucket of FULL STRENGTH carb cleaner wouldnt clean them, and I damn sure wouldnt waste my time taking one apart and soaking it in a mix of gas and carb cleaner, if I was gonna do that I would just pour some in the gas tank and run it through the carb that way.
And last but not least, there are alot of rubber parts in some carbs that you can't just SEE right when you take it apart, it is real easy to overlook a rubber grommet or a rubber tipped needle valve, and it is not going to matter what KIND of carb cleaner it is, it will ruin it if it has any kind of prolonged contact with straight carb cleaner/spray.
So next time you may need to read my whole post instead of one little excerpt of it, and maybe you would understand what I am saying a little better, because I didn't make any GENERALIZATIONS.