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I have been rebuilding my carbs..one issue I have found is the slides sticking. I want them to rebound easily to be level with the carb caps when held upside down and pushed in. This is when you have the caps off, the spring in place with the slides in.
Holding the cap in your hand and giving the slide a push and seeing if it bounces back up easily.
Anyway to "clean" these parts so that the bounce is smooth and easy I have found that wrapping jewelers paper around a 1/4" dowel with the grit out and then putting it inside the slide tube of the cap still on the dowel and them turning the cap cleans and polishes the cap tube very nicely. Then reversing the jewelers paper so the "grit" is on the inside then pulling the wrapped jewelers paper off the dowel and slipping it on to the slide tube and spinning again..it's hard to clean down the length of the slide tube as it's in the body of the slide this method allows you to get all the way down into the body of the slide.
The size of the paper should be cut to about 3" or 4" in width that gets the paper all the way into both places and the length should be enough for two wraps around the dowel..on the inside wrap you can't do any more wraps and the outside wrap you can do a few more to make it easier to hold on to if you want.
I had significant drag and this procedure fixed it right up.
Confused..get a 1/4"dowel and some regular paper and play with it until you see how it works..then cut the jewelers paper.
You do need to be careful with "sandpaper" on these parts..jewelers paper is a VERY smooth grit hard to feel anything with your fingers on it but it's enough to clean the metal without removing any metal.
Just worked for me on some very rough/dirty slides.
I also used this paper on the outside of the slide itself to clean them up too, again less is more you have to careful to polish not "sand".
I have been rebuilding my carbs..one issue I have found is the slides sticking. I want them to rebound easily to be level with the carb caps when held upside down and pushed in. This is when you have the caps off, the spring in place with the slides in.
Holding the cap in your hand and giving the slide a push and seeing if it bounces back up easily.
Anyway to "clean" these parts so that the bounce is smooth and easy I have found that wrapping jewelers paper around a 1/4" dowel with the grit out and then putting it inside the slide tube of the cap still on the dowel and them turning the cap cleans and polishes the cap tube very nicely. Then reversing the jewelers paper so the "grit" is on the inside then pulling the wrapped jewelers paper off the dowel and slipping it on to the slide tube and spinning again..it's hard to clean down the length of the slide tube as it's in the body of the slide this method allows you to get all the way down into the body of the slide.
The size of the paper should be cut to about 3" or 4" in width that gets the paper all the way into both places and the length should be enough for two wraps around the dowel..on the inside wrap you can't do any more wraps and the outside wrap you can do a few more to make it easier to hold on to if you want.
I had significant drag and this procedure fixed it right up.
Confused..get a 1/4"dowel and some regular paper and play with it until you see how it works..then cut the jewelers paper.
You do need to be careful with "sandpaper" on these parts..jewelers paper is a VERY smooth grit hard to feel anything with your fingers on it but it's enough to clean the metal without removing any metal.
Just worked for me on some very rough/dirty slides.
I also used this paper on the outside of the slide itself to clean them up too, again less is more you have to careful to polish not "sand".
