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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Haribo! on 03 January 2006, 10:42

Title: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Haribo! on 03 January 2006, 10:42

where do i buy them from??? i need one for my weber

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: [han] on 03 January 2006, 10:51

i didn't realise there was a kit? thought there was just carb cleaner in a spray thing that you use?

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Judderi on 03 January 2006, 10:56

Me too.

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: [han] on 03 January 2006, 10:58

Any motor shop will do it! Can pick up cheap stuff at carboots..., like 50 tins for £2...   :laugh:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Si on 03 January 2006, 11:09

Just buy Carb Cleaner in a can (like WD40 size can)  :smiley:
Its better to remove and strip Carb to clean each jet and moving part.
If you'v got compressor then use it to blast all the sh@te out the port holes, etc. If not then take a dep breath and blow down the jets.

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Haribo! on 03 January 2006, 11:23

nah, i want to replace the gaskets too, dont wanna risk one splitting, that would take the biscuit, got carb cleaner, great stuff that :cool:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Si on 03 January 2006, 11:27

Can get Carb Gasket Kit from GSF. Dont know how much they are tbh.  :undecided:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Haribo! on 03 January 2006, 11:35

i should know better but what specifically is my carb? so i know what to ask for..... all i know is its a weber

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Si on 03 January 2006, 11:42

Havent got a scooby doo mate tbh!
Have a look on the Carb housing somewhere, it must have a number or something?  :undecided:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: rubjonny on 03 January 2006, 17:45

Just spray most ofd a tin into the top of the carb whilst the engine running, that will clean most if not all of the crap out of it and the engine!

If you have your heart set on stripping it make sure you have plenty of manuals so you know how to put it back together again after, the Haynes carb manual is a must :)

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Si on 03 January 2006, 19:46

Quote from: rubjonny on 03 January 2006, 17:45

Just spray most ofd a tin into the top of the carb whilst the engine running, that will clean most if not all of the crap out of it and the engine!

If you have your heart set on stripping it make sure you have plenty of manuals so you know how to put it back together again after, the Haynes carb manual is a must :)

I tried this but it didnt clear it. Had to strip Carb down.  :angry:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Haribo! on 04 January 2006, 03:18

bollocks to it, im getting a pierburg  :cool:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: maximous on 04 January 2006, 13:38

If you want the whole cleaning kit with gasgets then contact euro carbs in reading (just google the name) and they'll sort you out.

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Si on 05 January 2006, 11:38

Are you sure it wasnt a 1300 you robbed the Weber from?  :undecided:
Just read your other thread "wont run prop.." and the Weber should be much better than sh!teburg!!!
Make sure its jetted for a 1600 not a 1300.  :smiley:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: rubjonny on 05 January 2006, 11:52

an old webber can be just as knackered as a pierburg ;)

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Haribo! on 05 January 2006, 12:50

definatly jetted for the right engine, by the look of the engine i new it was either a 1600 or 1800 so i felt round the back and it was definalty a 1600, ive heard from alot of mechanics othe rpeople wiho "know about cars" and ive been assured that a pierburg running properly isnt very far of the standard of a weber anyway, pierburgs just go wrong more often and is often mistaken for being crap, but before mine went wrong it was running better than this weber. plus ive really gone off this manual choke, anyone want this weber when i get this pierburg? you can have it for 30 quid just needs stripping and cleaning out but i cant be arsed to do it,  ive had it with webers  :smiley:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: rubjonny on 05 January 2006, 13:49

how did you know it was a 1600 just by feeling round the back?  The only way to tell is to check the log book or read the engine number stamped on the front :)

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Haribo! on 05 January 2006, 18:41

on the block right behind it just above the sump(bloody hard to reach) theres raised lettering, on my old 1800 on my old golf it read "1.8" on the automatic engine i bought for it when the 1800 blew up it had an "A", and on both my engine and the one at the scrappy it says "1.6" im just assuming that its telling me what engine it is... ???

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: rubjonny on 05 January 2006, 22:21

the 1.6 carb engines didn't have 1.6 stamped on them, they had 1.8.  The blocks themselves are identical to those fitted to the 1.8 8v engines, but with a different crank & pistons to reduce the cc to 1.6 :)

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Haribo! on 06 January 2006, 02:24

well........... what can i say......... my touchy feely skiils must be totally out of wack.... ide be no good at braile thats for sure :(, tell ya what, that solves the big mystery about my old golf and what looked like a dodgy engine conversion, foiled again

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: Si on 06 January 2006, 11:23

Rubjonny, are the pistons different between 1600 and 1800? i thought it was the Crank and Conrods that were only different? Pistons are identical arent they? Just got a longer stroke?  :undecided:

Title: Re: carb cleaning kits?
Post by: rubjonny on 06 January 2006, 11:47

Well according to ETKA, the piston for the EZ is different to the piston for the GU & PB :)