In a message dated 5/14/2006 1:57:01 PM Mountain Standard Time,
tr4a2712@yahoo.com writes:
Other than taking the car out on long high speed
drives & hitting the hills, is there any other way of
decarbonizing the tops of the pistons WITHOUT moving
the engine's head?
Maybe spraying something down the throat of each carb?
[Like carb cleaner? either? Raw gasoline?]
The old wives tale to fix this, supposedly used by VW mechanics, is to rev
the engine to a very high idle and slowly pour a small coke bottle of water
into the intake through the carb, just enough to make it stumble a little, but
never enough to stall the engine.
Never tried it, just heard about it. If you try it, let us know how you
come out.
Perhaps I should send this one to Mythbusters and ask them to try it?
Robert Houston
Texan in NM
63 TR4
73 MG Midget
74.5 MGBGT
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though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither
enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows
neither
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