Katana Owners Club U.K.

right....i was going to have a go at stripping and cleaning my carbs, after taking the float bowl off i have found a complete mess.
obviously the petrol has turned to varnish, but also the black plastic caps have melted soooooo, anyone on here fancy a challenge? or is the someone that can be recommended to do a strip down, sonic cleaned and rebuild?

what sort of cost would this be aswell?

ta

Hi

pretty much had the same situation on Skruffy Kat. The old petrol had dissolved the little rubber bungs.

At the time I had access to a hooge sonic cleaner, so dropped the whole bank in the bath and over a period of days cleaned them out. I then rebuilt them with the kits available from NRP (KOC discount) had all the bits I needed.

But before I fitted them to the bike I set them up on the workbench and filled them with 50-1 2 stroke mix. Because it was a vivid pink colour. Good job realy as the "nipples" connecting the carb bodies leaked profusely

So I separated the bodies and replaced all the O rings. They went back together easy enough, just need to balance them up now. Be aware that the screws holding the bodies together a thread locked and a quality screw removing device should be used. Also thread lock them on re-assembly.

As for other people doing the job- I have heard someone quote about 25 squid per carb, but not sure who. You could try CC's

http://www.carbcleaning.com/index.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

not used them so cannot say either way. but they have been used by some of the magazines

Oh yeah.

I'm glad to see you using the rubber/nitrile gloves.

And Scotchbrite the alloy, it comes up a treat

cheers buddy

I got the bungs from Robinsons, think they were about £12 posted.

Nrp usually does the jets and bungs for a tener or so a carb.

thanks guys, i'll get on it...