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I'm rebuilding the carb's on my new 85 1200. There is a green crust all over from the fuel. It's cleaning up nicely in the ultrasonic cleaner though.
But looking at the floats they all 4 have got the crust inside of them too. If I stand them up on end like in the pic, and shine a bright light down through them, I can see dark liquid moving around in there. So they have leaked.
I'm sure they are trash, right?
I submersed one in tap water and did not see any bubbles. But if I put it in the hot ultrasonic cleaner I can see bubbles.
Seems strange to me that all 4 are like that. Is this from the ethyinal. Admittedly I did give it a healthy dose of seafoam when I got it to see if it would help. Could that have made the floats leak. I doubt it. But the poor thing was only running on 1 cylinder. Three of the float valves were stuck,,,lol.
The upper one has been cleaned. The lower one has not been touched.
But looking at the floats they all 4 have got the crust inside of them too. If I stand them up on end like in the pic, and shine a bright light down through them, I can see dark liquid moving around in there. So they have leaked.
I'm sure they are trash, right?
I submersed one in tap water and did not see any bubbles. But if I put it in the hot ultrasonic cleaner I can see bubbles.
Seems strange to me that all 4 are like that. Is this from the ethyinal. Admittedly I did give it a healthy dose of seafoam when I got it to see if it would help. Could that have made the floats leak. I doubt it. But the poor thing was only running on 1 cylinder. Three of the float valves were stuck,,,lol.
The upper one has been cleaned. The lower one has not been touched.