Pine Sol for carb dip

[four_shot]

My friend uses "Purple Power" in his ultrasonic cleaner. he says he has excellent results.

 

[Hammered]

Id be curious about the ultrasonic cleaner and pine sol as well. Harbour Frieght has them from time to time but Im not sure theyre big enough to dip the full rack. The tank on the 2.5 liter is only 9.75" long and only 3" deep. But for $70 bucks, it might make a good donor for building a better tank for carbs to sit in. Nothing a local weld shop couldnt tig up out of 14ga stainless. And the HF one has a heating function.

 

[427cobra]

Ive tried the pine sol on some snowmobile carbs...

It worked great came out nice and clean! Best part you can pour it down the drain when your done.

 

[m98]

I am in the process of getting a 700es running and put the carburetor
bank in a bucket with water and pine sol. Came out clean, but I did have
to use a brush in certain places to get heavier residue off. The original
poster is showing pictures of the owner of the Nighthawk Forum cleaning
his carburetors. The owner of the Nighthawk Forum got the idea from
the CB750/900/1100f Forum. I put other stuff in the bucket as well
and it cleans up well afterwards. I did remove all O-rings from the
carburetor before the soak.

 

[wkmpt]

Id be curious about the ultrasonic cleaner and pine sol as well. Harbour Frieght has them from time to time but Im not sure theyre big enough to dip the full rack. The tank on the 2.5 liter is only 9.75" long and only 3" deep. But for $70 bucks, it might make a good donor for building a better tank for carbs to sit in. Nothing a local weld shop couldnt tig up out of 14ga stainless. And the HF one has a heating function.

I just picked up one of those about six weeks ago. It is frikkin' sweet. I mean, really, really frikkin' sweet. I really dig it, and as long as it keeps working, I'm going to keep cleaning my carbs (and at least for the first few days about every other small dirty thing I could fit in there) in it. First time around solution was 50/50 water/simple green, though I suspect that 3:1 or even 4:1 water/green is going to work just as well.

The heater is what really makes this unit rock. When I first fired it up, I put a really grimy carb body in there just after I mixed the solution. It didn't clean that well, honestly. I absent-mindedly left it sit with the heater on for a while and did some other stuff around the house. Came back and started up another cleaning cycle, and holey moley that sucker came out clean. So the heat is what makes this ultrasonic cleaner sing.

It has 90, 180, 280, 380, and 480-second cycles, though I have only used the 480 cycle. Even with seven-minute cycles, it is totally feasible to do a whole rack of carbs in a day, and have them clean enough to eat off of. Some parts do require a 'double dip' (like the mounting bracket, carb bodies, and choke bar), where you have to rotate the part to get the other half immersed, but it still makes very short work of the shellac and grime. The only thing I have done to expedite the cleaning process is to whip up two baskets out of ordinary metal window screen so that I could clean two sets of small parts at a time.

I was so enthralled at how well this thing works as it stands, I hadn't thought of using it as parts for a bigger one...hmmm...food for thought.

 

[Dogma]

I recently got one of these also. It fits about 2/3 of one BS32SS carb at a time.

I haven't tried Simple Green in it yet. The cleaning solution that HF sells for these is better than straight water for cleaning, but seems to induce a little corrosion on the carb bodies. For some reason, they keep this cleaning solution in a locked cabinet.

 

[chuck hahn]

"for some reason they keep it locked up."...might be a chemical in there that can be used to make crystal meth..send me a copy of the ingredients and i will cross reference with my recipe to see if theres anything i can use..might save a lot of money..all that sudafed is expensive...LMAO

 

[waterman]

I may have to give the Pine sol a try. I have used carb dip in my ultrasonic cleaner with decent results. May give the power of pine a shot. Unfortunately, the only carbs I have to clean are relatively clean, meaning have only been sitting a year or less.

To the other poster using the purple power, I can't use it anymore since it eats my skin. It would be nice to use something a little less caustic.

 

[wkmpt]

I may have to give the Pine sol a try. I have used carb dip in my ultrasonic cleaner with decent results. May give the power of pine a shot. Unfortunately, the only carbs I have to clean are relatively clean, meaning have only been sitting a year or less.

To the other poster using the purple power, I can't use it anymore since it eats my skin. It would be nice to use something a little less caustic.

Haven't tried pine-sol yet, when my jug of Simple Green is gone, I'll probably try it. FWIW, I'm very pleased with the green. It smells decent, and in various dilutions can be used for a ton of stuff, and it will not, even at full strength, chew up your skin.

That purple power is pretty hard core stuff. I borrowed a bottle from work to clean my engine, good thing I read the label first, it specifically states NOT to use it on aluminum.

 

[four_shot]

To the other poster using the purple power, I can't use it anymore since it eats my skin. It would be nice to use something a little less caustic.

That purple power is pretty hard core stuff. I borrowed a bottle from work to clean my engine, good thing I read the label first, it specifically states NOT to use it on aluminum.

He Keeps a close eye on his process. And like I said, he had excellent results.

 

[knowyourenemy66]

Chuck--send me a copy of your "recipe"

 

[Texasgs]

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I guess the pine thing is a pretty strong detergent. But you need to keep in mind that actual solvents are much more powerful cleaners. There are more powerful detergents than pinesol out there. I have rebuilt hundreds of carbs in my many years and good carb dips will unstop passages that ither products wont touch. I have an oval big crock pot with a surplus ultrasound transducer on it, that I put Berrymans chemdip in. I put the lid on it and cook a set of carbs for an hour, and let it cool down before opening it. I have never seen anything clean like it. I will try pinesol in the pot, I bet the heat will make it rock out. Maybe a little pinesol and berrymans mixed? Anyway it is good to have alternatives. I have to rebuild the carb on my BD4 next week, I might do the pine thing, to see how it cleans.

 

[SDBuckeye]

Hi,
There is a lot of info on cleaning carbs with pinesol over on www.cb750c.com It is not exactly "non-toxic" after the carbs have been dipped, but definitely better than berrymans.

cheers,
Lyle

 

[nutsandbolts]

I heard varsol works great though this pinesol sounds great. Somebody try it and let us know

 

[Texasgs]

Hi,
There is a lot of info on cleaning carbs with pinesol over on www.cb750c.com It is not exactly "non-toxic" after the carbs have been dipped, but definitely better than berrymans.

cheers,
Lyle

Better than berrymans chemdip, not even close as far as cleaning power goes. No detergent based product is. The commercial carb dip industry has been formulating cleaners for carbs for decades, and these cleaners are in another league compared to any detergents. I don't mind going back door ghetto for some things, but you have to realize back door ghetto is what it is, back door ghetto. Pinesol will never get close to pro carb cleaner for internal cleaning, because it is a detergent. Detergents can clean pretty good, and make parts look clean, looks don't go to far when you have restricted passages in carbs that you don't get unstopped.

 

[SVSooke]

Did my carbs with PineSol.They where not really gummed up and where working well.Since I was doing a cycleorings kit as well why not.

This is how they looked after using a spray cleaner the first time.

Into the solution

All nice and clean,new SS allens to

 

[chuck hahn]

So are you saying it worked as well as the commercial dips or not???

 

[SVSooke]

Have no idea,never used a commercial dip.For a really bad set probably not.

 

[fishfarm]

Hi - I've got the carbs off the bike and am about to disassemble them for soaking. I'm looking for any followup on the Pine Sol vs Berrymans/other dip results. Thanks

 

[Guest]

I've used both (not berrymans but a commercial carb dip that was similar). The carb dip did a much better cleaning job. The Pine sole did clean but as stated earlier if the rack is fairly gummed up or dirty the Pine sole is just not a strong enough agent. The rack I dipped was not that soiled, no plugged passeges but even the body did not comes 'as' clean as with the carb dip. In a pinch or for something that isn't that bad it works fine.