Carb dip residue?

[tbrand69]

Okay, so I took pretty much every thread's advice on carb cleaning and dipped a couple of my carbs in Berryman's for 24 hours.

They came out like this:


Wet, and with an interesting look:


Here's what that stuff looks like on my hands, 'cause it smeared right off:


Here's the same carb body next to another carb that only spent a couple hours in the dip:


Here's how the two 24 hour carbs look after being washed and scrubbed with soapy water and rinsed out with carb cleaner spray:


And here's what keeps rubbing off, even after the cleaning:



I'm left with three options:

1) I shouldn't have let the carbs soak for so long.
2) The soapy water messed it up (unlikely)
3) Overzealous use of carb spray screwed it up

I really don't want to waste my time reassembling the carbs with this residue inside them, as I figure that probably won't end well.

So any ideas guys?

Tommy

[Rover]

Where they painted? I seem to recall someone boiling their carb bodies to remove residue and then spray with something like WD-40.
If you do this don't leave it in too long and make sure no fragile parts are included.

[wally]

I didn't use carb dip, but Kleen Green.

Afterwards I let all the dipped parts soak in warm clean water for another day or so. A toothbrush also works great to remove the extra gunk.

Some WD40 or silicon spray worked great to get rid o the white, powdery residue.

[cowboyup3371]

A good rinse in water and spray off with compressed air and you should be good. But I agree that it looks like they were also painted.

[Guest]

I've had this same problems off and on with carbs at times, and I just scrub the crap out of them with a scrub brush and hot soapy water. It has not really presented a problem. I blame it on the Berrymens getting some age on it. I have never had it happen with a new can.

[Gonzo]

It's fine, it will rinse off.

I have to say though, wear some gloves bro! The Berryman's aint much to worry about, but carb spray is some truly putrid stuff.

[Toasty]

It burns like heck if you have a cuts on your hands too

[chuck hahn]

READ THE FRONT OF THE CAN...THE PART ABOUT ITS TOXIC AND ABSORBS THRU THE SKIN AND PUT SOME RUBBER GLOVES ON. THAT CRAP WILL GIVE YOU THE WORST HEADACHE IN THE WORLD!!!

Take a green dish scrubbie and some dish soap like Dawn and scrub the bodies and the grey sooty stuff will come off. If you wanna go gonzo for the shiney polished look, then use a bench grinder and a soft fine wire wheel and do them like this::
As for the "residue inside them"..You get afew cans of acrb spray and an air compressor and douche the heck out of all the holes and orfices with the carb spray and them blow them out with the air. We PROMISE they will then be fine. Be sure to take a bread tie wire and poke out all the holes in the pilot and needle jet, as well as the holes at the base and ends of the bleeder tubes ( the big brass one hanging down from each carb body). Look right where they go into the bodies and youll see the holes there.

[Guest]

My carbs came out fine in Berrymans. They soaked for 24 hours, washed them off thoroughly and a good blast of air. Now painting them with high heat engine enamel.

[Guest]

Wash em with hot soapy water and a tooth brush.

[chuck hahn]

To add to Octains post...the dollar stores have toothbrush style brushes with brass ans stainless steel bristles..they work very well too and add a bit of bling as your cleaning.

[tbrand69]

Sorry for the delay. So I got a fine wire wheel for the bench grinder and gave the carbs a little bit of a polish. Apparently I didn't take a picture of the polished carbs, but they look much better now. I got all of that residue crap off after washing them in soapy water and scrubbing, then spraying them down with WD-40 until I was ready to reassemble them. I blasted off the WD-40 with carb cleaner, reassembled, and no they are good to go.

Funny thing though, the new o-rings I installed feel a little strange after they've been installed. When I try to screw out a couple of the air and fuel screws, the rings slide down and start getting pinched in the threads, making it very difficult to unscrew them. The rings don't get torn or anything, I just thought it was weird that would happen.

Perhaps I screwed them in too much?