In the old days before cars had fuel injection I (and many reputable mechanics) considered part of a routine tune up to idle the engine and spray a few puffs of carb cleander right down into the carb.
I could always actually see this process cleaning brown deposits out of the throat.
Short of taking of carbs and doing the complete clean and rebuild,
anyone here ever do that on their 912 or 914?
(I did talk to one 912 owner sho does this, but figured I'd check here too.)
Anyone think of any harm in doing so (as long as you don't foolishly put your body in the way of the spinning prop)?
Or better yet do the spray and clean with the engine warm but totally off?
(seems saner to me -- but would have to do one carb at a time, restart, let engine clear out the cleaner from carb one, turn off and do the other.
That is, because based on my old experience with 4 cycle auto engines, the engine may not be too happy about starting with the peculiar mixture of fuel, air, and carb cleaner in BOTH carbs.)
If viable, this seems like a easy way to do a bit of carb cleaning between major carb rebuilds.
Al
I could always actually see this process cleaning brown deposits out of the throat.
Short of taking of carbs and doing the complete clean and rebuild,
anyone here ever do that on their 912 or 914?
(I did talk to one 912 owner sho does this, but figured I'd check here too.)
Anyone think of any harm in doing so (as long as you don't foolishly put your body in the way of the spinning prop)?
Or better yet do the spray and clean with the engine warm but totally off?
(seems saner to me -- but would have to do one carb at a time, restart, let engine clear out the cleaner from carb one, turn off and do the other.
That is, because based on my old experience with 4 cycle auto engines, the engine may not be too happy about starting with the peculiar mixture of fuel, air, and carb cleaner in BOTH carbs.)
If viable, this seems like a easy way to do a bit of carb cleaning between major carb rebuilds.
Al
