Fantastic job my friend! That is how you save a carb. That was nothing short of magic. I use simple green for pressure washers and it's quite expensive $20/gallon Canadian where the pinsol is just as good and I think better for so little money. The proof is in that carb you just saved. That float bowl would never have come clean with just normal carb clean spray.

Used Pine Sol over the wekend for my old Ford carb and worked very well. Only thing I noticed was Pine Sol tends to eat steel parts more than I expected. The throttle lever and fast idle cam are steel and saw a bit of corrosion on them. Ended up using Evaporust in my ultrsonic cleaner and clened right up. I'm a new believer in the Pine Sol!

Thanks for the demo. Nice song.

Great video. Lots of opinions on whether or not Pinesol should be used on aluminum. I use it all the time, in a heated ultrasonic cleaner. The key is to not let it sit for days or weeks. A couple hours or maybe overnight, then cleaning all of that dark gray stuff off--exactly as you showed. For the rough, external parts, I rub copper anti-sieze in, sparingly and make sure its all wiped clean. That seems to ward off oxidation of the aluminum for a good while. If you use it internally, I'd clean with a clean rag thoroughly. On the brass bits, Brasso and elbow grease get them into great shape.

Pine sol works very well. I have been using for many years.

Sweet! I just came across you vid today 6/3/23. I have a set of 4 carbs off my snowmobile (Rupp / Honda CB550). its been in and out of storage and run very little in the past 17 or so years. As of last winter, I lost one cylinder only rode one short trip around the field. This spring I started it to "summarize" it and noticed another cylinder dropping out. I pulled off the whole rack and dropped off the bowls.... yah. I was rather surprised on the corrosion and gunk build up. seeing I only run non-ethanol gas, i run it dry every spring (well not every spring) the tank is lined, I keep additive in the fuel and I still have a bowl just full of debris. (dirt, rust and deposits even looks like water was in them for a while) Im gonna try this method right here next week. I have a vid here on YT, (custom Rupp). It was running ok when i took this vid in the winter of 20" but not great.

Yes, I have been using this for years because it is eco friendly. Gas to be pine sol regular. Makes the shop smell good too.

I guess I found the new stuff to clean my carbs. Pine sol. I would have never 🤔 thought

i opened the carborator from top screws and put in carb cleaner directly... i was wrong ??

Thank you.

Thanks. Very good presentation. Now move from Technician 2 to Technician Team leader. Good teacher

I like to pull the jets and put them in a jar of carb cleaner. Then put that jar in the ultrasonic cleaner full of pinesol along side the carburetor.

Thank you

The black stuff is aluminum

Very impressive, I work on a lot of riding mowers that I pick up free this will be my go to from now on. I have seen a video of a guy took a vibratory sander put velcro on the bottom of a jar stuck to the sander hung it up turned on the sander to get a little vibratory action going. We 40? Try pb blaster it's cheaper and works great for me better than wd 40 does.

Looks great.

I use pine sol soak it overnight spray with carb cleaner. Works on most of the carbs. If not order a new one

Do ultrasonics get inside the tiny gubbins and that? This is an excellent tip but not quite getting into the corners?

Maybe after soaking you use a water blaster to remove the grey scum. Then you should not need to scrub and the effect should be uniform over the whole caribe.

Looks great, but want to know if the carb actually worked to get your machine running.

imagine this solution in a heated ultrasonic machine

How long did you soak the carb for?

I used Pine-Sol to clean the Edelbrock 1405 on my '69 AMX. It did the job, too. One float had gasoline inside it, which most likely explained why it flooded the last time I tried to start the 390 V8.

Can you use this stuff indoors? Hoping to find a cleaner that doesn't have harmful fumes.

Curious how long you soaked it for? I like the idea

Nope turning that "aluminum" which really is pot metal black means you've ripped off the protective "parkerizing" which really is a zinc and cadmium coating. It will take the oxygen in the wonderful gas of today and make flowery alumimum oxide. You could have just used hot water and elbow grease to get it clean better. You also are better off using petro based because, well it is supposed to stand in gas for all eternity.

Any thoughts on anodising or electroplating the aluminum after dipping? Nice job.

The best thing is a mixture of meratic acid and water it only takes a few minutes, but it takes the shine off, you can bring it back with a small hand blaster using soda, I discovered it on line and tried it, works great but you are dealing with acid, the only other thing that works better is chem cleaner

Just noticed thet Fabuloso household cleaner removes 38 year old varnish!

That music is on my nerves

Can you use it one a rubber diaphragm and plastic pieces

Does the slide work?

You can’t just wash the black off?

How long should you let it sit in the juice

unfortunately we have no Pine-sol in europe, unbeliavable this was never been imported, a bottle from USA ebay + shipping costs more than a ultrasonic cleaner from China LoL

You can smell the video

Its eating the aluminum

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