Soaking parts in pinesol

[bluej58]

On my Kawasaki forum I know a bunch of guys that like to soak their crusty carbs in pine-sol over night and from what I see they come out beautiful and it supposedly it doesn't effect the rubber parts.

I have the petcock apart and have cleaned it with carb cleaner before rebuilding it but I'm thinking that it could benefit from a good soaking in Pine-sol first.

What do you do ?

JD

[bluej58]

I soaked these parts over night in straight pine-Sol and this morning I rinsed them off and wiped them down .

All the crud came off and they look brand new.

I am very pleased with the results.

JD

[Spitfire151]

I did this with a yahama xs750 and it worked pretty good but once they started drying after i rinsed they staryed to show slight signs of carbon/calcium/whatever buildup. it wiped right off but was concerning. however they worked like they were brand new and this even after i had to drill the broken mixture needle tips out.

I had a worse buildup issue after i foolishly used water to test a carb leak and never blew it dry, totally ruining the work I'd done to them on my kz440.

For the Pinesol mix I mixed 50/50 of Pinesol and water, worked well.

[hondadreamca77]

Thanks for this tip..worked great yesterday on my ca77 carb rebuild. I took it all apart (kept rubber parts separate) and soaked for couple of hours, rinsed and put together. Now it looks like new and performs super.