New Ultrasonic Cleaner
You will be happy with that as long as you don't over cook bare aluminum parts, like that early AFB 625 cfm there is no special coating on the aluminum carb body parts.
You have to be careful or you will turn it black. I use Pinesol and Distilled water, one ounce or less per 2 gallons of distilled water.
Then get the water mix up to over bathwater temp. Then let the solution cook on it's own for 15 minutes so it all equalizes.
Then put in the carb base after you have degunked it, degreased it, chip off any heavy corrosion. There is a certain amount of hand work to get it as clean as you can before Ultrasonic final cleaning it.
Cook it at 15 minute intervals and check on it so it is not turning gray. 1/2 hour total time is about it on that early AFB.
The newer Edelbrocks have a shiny chemical proof finish so they can take the longer cooking times without discoloring. If inside the bowls have lost the chemical proof finish inside the bowls due to corrosion, rust, and sediment. Then those bowls can turn black inside if you cook them too long and use too harsh of a chemical.
Pinesol and distilled water is what I have found best to clean carbs.
Here is a 1967 AFB that I Ultrasonic Cleaned, slightly grayed on me, but came nice and clean inside and out.
Here is the Newer Edelbrocks with the shiny chemical proof finish on them after cleaning:
Have to be careful not to cook the gold zinc plated linkage and brackets too long or you can cook the plating off of them down to bare metal, 15 minutes or less, pull out when clean. They clean up nice.
Here is a batch of carbs I went through and Ultrasonic Cleaned so they will work well when needed. Nothing worse than a plugged carb.
Can also take a small parts tag wire and run it through the small ports on the parts so they blow through with compressed air.
Have fun making your carbs new again.
You can buy new accelerator pump seals 5 at a time for 15 bucks on ebay, plus gaskets and carb kits as you well know.
Those extra accelerator pump small steel balls and small linkage clips are extremely handy to have on hand when you lose one.
You will be happy with that as long as you don't over cook bare aluminum parts, like that early AFB 625 cfm there is no special coating on the aluminum carb body parts.
You have to be careful or you will turn it black. I use Pinesol and Distilled water, one ounce or less per 2 gallons of distilled water.
Then get the water mix up to over bathwater temp. Then let the solution cook on it's own for 15 minutes so it all equalizes.
Then put in the carb base after you have degunked it, degreased it, chip off any heavy corrosion. There is a certain amount of hand work to get it as clean as you can before Ultrasonic final cleaning it.
Cook it at 15 minute intervals and check on it so it is not turning gray. 1/2 hour total time is about it on that early AFB.
The newer Edelbrocks have a shiny chemical proof finish so they can take the longer cooking times without discoloring. If inside the bowls have lost the chemical proof finish inside the bowls due to corrosion, rust, and sediment. Then those bowls can turn black inside if you cook them too long and use too harsh of a chemical.
Pinesol and distilled water is what I have found best to clean carbs.
Here is a 1967 AFB that I Ultrasonic Cleaned, slightly grayed on me, but came nice and clean inside and out.
Here is the Newer Edelbrocks with the shiny chemical proof finish on them after cleaning:
Have to be careful not to cook the gold zinc plated linkage and brackets too long or you can cook the plating off of them down to bare metal, 15 minutes or less, pull out when clean. They clean up nice.
Here is a batch of carbs I went through and Ultrasonic Cleaned so they will work well when needed. Nothing worse than a plugged carb.
Can also take a small parts tag wire and run it through the small ports on the parts so they blow through with compressed air.
Have fun making your carbs new again.
You can buy new accelerator pump seals 5 at a time for 15 bucks on ebay, plus gaskets and carb kits as you well know.
Those extra accelerator pump small steel balls and small linkage clips are extremely handy to have on hand when you lose one.
