Painted Carbs

[Agemax]

I may paint my carbs (Mikuni BS34) this winter and besides the usual o-rings and jets removed before dipping, I was wondering if anything else needs to be removed before baking them? (200 F 15 or 20 minutes). I've read the butterflys can remain, but a list of things I was wondering about is below. Item numbers from the shop manual's exploded diagram in ()

1) needle jet stopper (7)
2) synchronizer screws (14)
3) throttle lever and parts under it (15)
4) oil seal (19)

Anything else? Plan is strip for rebuild, rolling boil, tape, etch prime, then gloss or satin black and bake. They were dipped a couple years ago, so I can skip that.

ideally you should strip them completely, right down to the bare body to do a proper job, especially if boiling

[londonboards]

This might help you:

My GS1100G Blog - Some Butterfly Capers shows how I got the butterflies out.

If you go through the blog there are 5 other recent postings on my carb break down.

My view was that if you have the time (it is winter here in the UK) you might as well go the whole hog and strip every part out. I discovered that one of my butterfly throttle rods was missing its precious seal completely. The other 7 are baked to an almost solid state and can't work very well as an air seal. So it's going to make me feel heaps better knowing when I go for a first start up (after 10 years) that it is not the butterfly seals causing the problem.

Today I have 4 carb bodies with not a single other item attached to or in them. Naked as the day they were cast. I popped them all on the stove and boiled the crap out of them. Literally.





Greetings

[mrbill5491]

This might help you:

My GS1100G Blog - Some Butterfly Capers shows how I got the butterflies out.

If you go through the blog there are 5 other recent postings on my carb break down.

My view was that if you have the time (it is winter here in the UK) you might as well go the whole hog and strip every part out. I discovered that one of my butterfly throttle rods was missing its precious seal completely. The other 7 are baked to an almost solid state and can't work very well as an air seal. So it's going to make me feel heaps better knowing when I go for a first start up (after 10 years) that it is not the butterfly seals causing the problem.

Today I have 4 carb bodies with not a single other item attached to or in them. Naked as the day they were cast. I popped them all on the stove and boiled the crap out of them. Literally.





Greetings

Good god man, when is the last time you cleaned that stove