Is this a normal carb purchase?

Any update on this situation? That guy needs to refund the money, letting him off the hook just empower him to do this kind of ripoff again.

The only thing I can do is warn others not to purchase from him, the diaphragm from one is in my bike and staying there.

His website is www.blackcatgarage.com

[blowerbike]

it doesn't take much to be worth 55 bucks but......
those are 100% trash and not worth the boxing and shipping that was involved.
i sell a few(quite a few) parts and try to give honest descriptions.
the seller should just refund the chump change and clear the air.

[renobruce]

Here's his quote:

They are from a '81 GS450, they will need to be cleaned. The floats are good,etc. I opened them up to check to see if the floats were damaged, and they checked out ok.

I'd have cleaned them up just to give them away. Not nice Spots.

[Nessism]

I figured somebody would do a little searching. Yes it is, I sent a PM to Frank.

Any update on this situation? That guy needs to refund the money, letting him off the hook just empower him to do this kind of ripoff again.

I wouldn't put much trust in the diaphram iether. Probly split shortly after put back in service.

[renobruce]

I've opened up hundreds of carbs. Auto and bikes and have never seen anything that bad and I've seen bad.
WOW

I agree. I thought mine from my Skunk were bad...those are worse by far!

My dog could probably crap out a better set of carbs than that. That guy has real nerve.

And since you have such a big awful dog, exbellicus, you could always feed the carbs to him and see what comes out the other end. Cheaper than seafoam for sure.

[renobruce]

Please give me his web address. I'd like to have a set of my carbs cleaned and re-jetted by him. By his honest descriptions of what he sells, I'm sure his work is equally as good.

[hampshirehog]

Surely a drop of Berrymans or Seafoam will get these sorted in no time....

We can't get either over here and I was always lead to believe those 2 were the panacea to all things carburretor.

I needed the diaphragm from one of the carbs or I would have sent it back with the tach cable the day it got here. I didn't post to get my money back, I posted to warn others about a bad seller and let you guys laugh with me about what this guy calls "good" and "normal"

The crushed floats are bizarre, too. The best I can come up with is that the carbs somehow filled up with water many years ago, which froze and crushed the floats, then caused the exotic corrosion.

Maybe the PO took the carbs into a high atmospheric pressure zone and the the unequal pressures caused the floats to implode. I can't think of any reason why the floats would get crushed. And the carbs looked like someone filled them with sand. I hope you get your money back or karma gets the seller.

[chef1366]

I've opened up hundreds of carbs. Auto and bikes and have never seen anything that bad and I've seen bad.
WOW

[kparkfan]

My dog could probably crap out a better set of carbs than that. That guy has real nerve.

[rustybronco]

On his website he advertised that he had opened up the carbs and they looked good just needed some cleaning...

I have a set of carbuertors for one of my bikes that was a lot of worse...

Does this sound like a normal carb sale to you?

What you have here is someone who is a liar...

if you are willing to keep them for the money you have in them, you are being gracious to the seller.

internally those are most likely the worst I have ever seen.

Dale