Can I soak a Techumseh carb?

[Fordiesel69 271]

Totally a non wheel horse question.  But I have an HM80 techuseh and need to really soak the carb as it is a green corroded mess.  There is no spraying it.  

 

I will blow the seat out with compressed air and remove any welch plugs.  But is there other plastic I need to be carefull with ?

[DoctorHfuhruhurr 137]

What were you planning on soaking it in?

[KATO 115]

I've soaked them for more than a week in Kleen-Flo carb and parts cleaner

with no trouble at all  

[Lane Ranger 11,434]

Berryman's will do a great job on carb's!

 

Buy it in a one gallon can and it has a basket with a handle that you can drop your parts in!

 

 

Berryman® Chem-Dip® Carburetor and Parts Cleaner

Fast-acting immersion cleaner for all metal parts, including alloys. Removes gum, varnish, sludge, carbon, and grease without heat or agitation. Non-chlorinated and nonflammable formula is VOC-compliant in all states.  Safe on plastic and rubber and will not cause rusting. Use for cleaning carburetor and transmission components, valves, and other small, hard-to-clean engine parts

 

 

Net 96 fl. oz. (2.84 L) Can with Basket

Part #0996

Edited June 16, 2013 by Lane Ranger

[Fordiesel69 271]

What were you planning on soaking it in?

 

Some kind of digestive carb cleaner.  Not sure what my local stores sell, but this one is fouled up to a point I should just buy a new one.

 

Its off an HM80 used on a ariens snow blower.  Parts are hard to find for this model.  Not sure why.  Each year I kick myself for not getting it ready before first snow.  This year I am for sure fixing it now that its warm out.

[squonk 43,934]

Advance auto sells GUNK Carb cleaner in a gal can with a basket if you don't find the Berryman's

[pacer 3,177]

I recently did carb off a Briggs that had been sitting for some 8-10yrs - and with the gas we get nowadays, it was horrible. I tried the parts washer & blowing out - wont start... I then tried soaking in purple power for a couple hours, would start and idle but not take throttle. Didnt have any dedicated carb cleaner and not wanting to make a 30mi trip to get some, what can I use thats on hand??? -- OVEN CLEANER! I put the carb in a plastic butter dish and kept it covered in the foamy oven cleaner for about an hour, flushed/blew it out good and --- cranked right up and ran like new. Gaskets were unfazed by it, but that stuff is potent, use caution using it.

[SousaKerry 503]

You can dang near buy a C.H.Ina carb on eVilbay for less money then the rebuild kit at your local dealer.  Sometimes it ain't worth the trouble

[Fordiesel69 271]

I always try first!!!!!  With Kohler/Carter/Walbro I always have success.  With techumseh its 50/50 shot each time.  I am very OCD and yet some still won;t idle.  I can always get them to run good at full throttle but some have somthing internal wrong and they refuse to idle.

 

I have not soaked them as they have had plastic.  This one does not appear to.

[specialwheelhorse 174]

Right on the money KERRY Why soak an old Tecumseh Carb when you can buy new for about fifty some,

What you will have no matter how long you soak or what you soak it in, is an Old Carb.

And you will have as much or more in all that hooky gooky and rebuild kit as new.

Been there done that more than once. I'[m just a little hard headed !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fordiesel69 271]

Cost reasons.  I bought this dirt cheap, and the kit was $12.  I plan to roll this over for a profit come winter time.

 

Here is a video of it running with the new carb kit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOW4TuxSOg&feature=youtu.be

 

It runs a little rough without a load like most of the techumseh's I have been around.  They sure could have made the carbs at least half better and they would have stayed in business.  These engines are very light and cheaply build but in my mind are legendary for their torque & easy starting in snowblower applications.  This is an HM80 and I do not beleive it had a cast iron sleeve.  But nonetheless it does not seem to smoke or know so that is a plus.