Re: [ihc] RE: David's decarbonisation

[David Bongo <dbongo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:47:37 -0600, ken.dunnington
<ken.dunnington@domain.elided> wrote:
> Jim Grammer wrote:
> 
> JG> Back in the day, a tune up at a good shop included pouring a can of
> JG> 'combustion chamber cleaner' down the carb as quickly as possible without
> JG> killing the engine. Said cleaner was a witches brew of aromatic solvents,
> JG> and produced great gouts of satisfying white smoke out the tailpipe. Very
> JG> impressive :)
> 
> JG> I use mineral spirits in place of ATF or SeaFoam. Fill a mustard bottle(with
> JG> the dispenser nozzle) and trickle it in as rapidly as you can.

I guess I'll give it a shot over the weekend.  Just pour it in as
quickly as possible without stalling the engine, right?  (And thanks
for granting me the moral authority to do this, by the way.  It
helps.)

> 
> OK, so I'm a little slow on the take here...
> 
> The carbon could be the source of the "diesel" rattle David reports.
> Is the rattling noise the reason for the combustion chamber cleaning
> or was it something else?
> 
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> 
> Unfortunately for the low mile "rattlers" the fix is not nearly so
> easy on the wallet.

This sounds like it's worth trying, but since I have a low milage
rattler (I've put just about 10,000 miles on it, and it didn't have
much more than a break-in period before I got it) what "fix" am I
looking at?

Dave