6lb pump blowing out carb?
Hey, sounds like you had it rough, which is an understatement.
I can't fully reply right now. I'm on my dinky phone. But I will try to get a good reply off tomorrow.
Some of us learn more than we live and some live more than they learn.
Thanks
It didn't feel rough at the time, it was normal.
One thing it did was let me appreciate how much better things can be later on in life.
If I have to fix something in the rain or blowing wind I think back how I used to have to do it in three feet of snow at 10 degrees.:D
One specific instance I still remember well was having to find, clean off and install the wheel drive chains on our road grader in a couple of feet of frozen over snow.
Each chain was about 16 feet long with links the size of house bricks and frozen to the ground even after we did locate them.
We used pry bars to get them loose and a blow torch to melt the ice off before we snaked them through the gear boxes and onto the sprockets.
Once we got it put together and the 20 gallons of cold *** gear oil in them, we still had to drive it 25 miles home in the storm with no windows in it.
Bout froze my *** off.
That was a rough day, and when we were home and all done my Dad thanked me for my help and told me most grown men he knew couldn't have done what I helped him do that day.:D
I think I was about 14 then.
I had coating on my tank let go and clog everything in the system from the sock all the way to the carburetor.
Never used coating on a car tank, but on a few motorcycles.
Yea, it usually ended up coming loose and making a mess at some point.
take tank out and fill it with 2 lbs of gravel and tape up the holes. Zip tie it to a cement mixer and run it for an hour. Remove gravel and run some gas in there and rinse a few times. Farm style......
I have done this before as well (minus the mixer) and it works great, but God forbid I mentioned that here. :D
I once needed to clean a scuba tank, so I put and handful of 1/4 ball bearings in the tank and about 3 feet brake line on an air hose.
Ziptied the air on part way and let it go for 1/2 hour.
Worked great.
