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[beardylondon]

My old motorbike was running a bit rough and someone suggested this carb cleaner stuff, you spray it in the air box while running and it seems to have cleaned an issue I was having.

My 90 Cooper sometimes runs a bit rough, but after a good run gets better, and I wondered if using this on the car might have similar effect and wanted to know anyone had tried it?

https://www.opieoils...cleaner-v1.aspx

Edited by beardylondon, 02 March 2025 - 09:33 PM.

[68+86auto]

It won't fix your problem. I don't really think spraying it in the intake would ever really fix anything on any carb. If the carb needs cleaning it needs to come apart.

[nicklouse]

We used to do it with Redex and brake fluid.

[beardylondon]

Im 100% with you on this, of course, a good clean is the best things, but this stuff seems to do something! 

 

It won't fix your problem. I don't really think spraying it in the intake would ever really fix anything on any carb. If the carb needs cleaning it needs to come apart.

[beardylondon]

DUPE POST

 

Edited by beardylondon, 03 March 2025 - 01:36 PM.

[Landie]

I use a product called Seafoam ( I don't know if you can get it in the UK). You add it to your fuel tank, I usually use 1/2 a small just under 1L can to 25L of fuel. I use it in everything My Mini, my truck, My Wife's car, my outboard, all the small engine garden tools and my emergency generator. It stabilizes Fuel and cleans jets & injectors.

 

I work in an Autoparts shop and we sell a ton of it we often sell out. Any stabilizer/injector cleaner should work. The carb cleaner is more for unsticking gummed up linkages than inside the carb.

 

We used to do it with Redex and brake fluid.

I did that years ago I don't know if it did anything except produce a whole lot of smoke.

[Cooperman]

We used to do it with Redex and brake fluid.

 

I remember doing that as an 'instant de-coke' back in the 1960's on my 998 Cooper.  By gum, it didn't 'arf make some smoke! But it worked well enough.

[imack]

The smoke from a shot of redex down the carb is mighty impressive. Might not go down too well with people these days!

[Cooperman]

I once ‘inhibited’ the engine on a Porsche 911 which was taken off the road for some body restoration. I used a mixture of Waxoyl and EP 90 gear oil. I did this because the bores are aluminium and I wanted to take no chances.
When it was time to start it I washed out the cylinders with paraffin and cranked it over with the plugs out. Then fitted new plugs and started it. Wow, the smoke was amazing and it smoked for around 20 minutes, until the oil which had pumped into the exhaust system was all gone. Then it was fine.

[Steam]

I can remember my old Dad used to say to the petrol station attendant (anyone remember them?) "6 gallons of 4 star and a shot". The 'shot' was redex and the old timers used to swear by it.

[whistler]

 

We used to do it with Redex and brake fluid.

 

I remember doing that as an 'instant de-coke' back in the 1960's on my 998 Cooper.  By gum, it didn't 'arf make some smoke! But it worked well enough.

You could actually see some the ******* come out the exhaust. Cheaper than a decoke back then.

[Landie]

I was talking to my Boss the other day he said they used to use ATF and that he hadn't heard of using brake fluid. I told we didn't use ATF because nobody in England that I knew had an automatic at that time (mid 80's), so didn't have ATF and brake fluid was handy. he told me it does work as he has seen before and after using a bore scope.