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Some 40 or so years ago, I used to use a carb cleaner that came with a couple of fittings to feed the cleaner directly into the carb. Actually, I think you hooked the can of about 16oz before the fuel pump. Anybody remember such stuff?
For a car that has Sat for a long time with ethanol fuel, it might work well.
Is this stuff still available? I seem to remember the name Gumout, but maybe not.
After you hooked it up, you would start the car and run it until the can was empty. As I remember a rather huge cloud of black smoke from the exhaust until the engine died when the can was MT.
Royal 2014-05-07 13:19:44 Yep. I remember it and used is a lot. It was Gumout and you disconnected and plugged the outlet from the fuel pump and hooked the can directly to the carb inlet. The instructions used to say to work the accelerator a few times to clean the accelerator pump. I haven’t seen the kit anywhere and have been thinking of making a kit out of a brake reservoir and some hose. If anyone sees a kit like that please let me and Roy know.
Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
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Short of taking the carb off and rebuilding, it’s the only carb cleaner I ever had any confidence in.Might you be thinking about something like this 3M kit:
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Not quite. This system (I think) hooks up to an aerosol can and squirts cleaner into the air plenum. It would possibly clean the manifolds, valves, and combustion chambers but do nothing for carb internal passages and accelerator pump.
The kit I remember was not aerosol but liquid that you ran through the fuel circuit actually cleaning those tiny passages within the carb.
I was unable to find anything like it. I wonder why. I always ran a can of the Gumout through my “new” cars. And that was long before ethanol.
I have that tool that Paul linked. Not that brand, but the same type of contraption. It sucks cleaner from a container through a vacuum hose into the intake manifold. Works fine on today’s fuel injected cars but would do nothing for cleaning a carb.
Speaking of ethanol…have you checked this?Bill Ascheman
Fiberfab Ford
Modified 5.0, 5sp., 4:11
Autocross & Hillclimb
"Drive Happy"I think tickle from Moonshiners might have just what you need. Nothing cleans like white lightning…Wait a minute…Were we talking about cars?…
Allen, looks lik.e you and I are the only ones that are old enough (or were poor enough) to know of this stuff.
I may put some carb cleaner in my small portable gas tank (aka Briggs and Stratton gas tank) and try running it through my buddy’s carb. (Just kidding Jack.)
Wait–why not? If it’s the fuel circuit you want to hit, wouldn’t it make sense to run the stuff through the fuel lines?
My engine couldn’t possibly possibly run better. We need a test platform.
Do you think that carb cleaner is flammable/volatile enough?
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