Well guys in all my years

the tractor vet · May 17, 2009

I have never see a carb so bad as the one i pulled off a 706 yesterday , This is carb week as this is the third carb this week that i am working on . even my KICKAPO JOY JUICE is not working on this one . Now i am going to have to get real serious as i do not know what got in this one but the inside is John Deere Green and i found no parts of a Deere in the intake on this one plus it is FUZZY on the inside yep green fuzzy
Float is plum stuck . Two cans of ezz off oven cleaner on the outside and still can't find metal

Jim in michigan · May 17, 2009

Hey TV,friend of mine has a old oven in his shop,he cooks all his parts when cleaning them,cooks off all the gunk and oil,he also cooks pizzas in the same oven,I always pass when he offers me a slice lol..Jim

Anonymous-0 · May 17, 2009

I hear that! Im working on my 20th this week, one looked like it came off the ocean floor!! Sandblasted it! it helped. ChadS

John G. Hasler · May 17, 2009

Boil it in lye. Careful that the green fuzz doesn"t spread or you could find yourself driving a green tractor.

teddy52food · May 17, 2009

Ethonal??????

HENRY E NC · May 17, 2009

Sounds like algae to me. Can grown from moisture in diesel and moisture attracted by the ethanol oin gas. try a diesel biocide or muriatic acid dip. Henry

John G. Hasler · May 17, 2009

> Sounds like algae to me.

Algae needs sunlight. Not much of that inside most carburators.

Anonymous-0 · May 17, 2009

I rebuilt a Marvel off a C and it was green inside too. The only thing we came up with is the guy poured way to much stabil in it! Nasty stuff to get out but it runs like a new one now!

Pale Rider · May 17, 2009

I remember working on a new salt water pier as an apprentice. Each day there were those who cast crab pots over the side and would collect the catch before they went home or would from time to time boil some for lunch.

The time came when the capstans and such used to tie off large ships were set with enormous bolts and nuts. When they were tightened, lead was melted in large pots and poured into the respective holes to keep the nuts from backing off.

One day on my way to lunch I noticed the carpenters or pile bucks as they were known, pulling out cooked crabs from salt water being boiled in the same pots used to melt the lead. I could hardly believe it, and stopped to make sure I was really seeing what it was I thought I was seeing. Their lead intake with each crab must have exceeded a lifetime limit. I wondered how long they had been doing it and have since wondered how they fared in later years.

Anonymous-0 · May 17, 2009

This might sound strange as a carb cleaner. I have had success cleaning carburetors with Sani Flush. Yes, it is the same thing you clean the porcelain throne with in the bathroom. The chemical boiling action works well to dislodge material never meant to be in a carb.

HENRY E NC · May 17, 2009

Really not true about sunlight. I have seen algae grow in buried tanks of diesel fuel. So bad it can stop and engine that its not properly filtered. Also it grows in boat fuel tanks and if the fuel is not polished every few years it will stop you dead in the water. Don't ask me how I know that. Henry

John G. Hasler · May 18, 2009

> Really not true about sunlight. I have seen
> algae grow in buried tanks of diesel fuel.

Those are bacteria, not algae. Many bacteria are green.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel>

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