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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:58 pm
by offroader-rama
go to autobarn and ask for some behimd the shelf carbon cleaner in a can pull you spark plugs out spray in hole and sit for half a day put plugs back in and drive till smoke stops
fixed
good luck with the rice cream
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:10 pm
by droopypete
RockyF70 wrote:Rb25sil80 wrote:jet-6 wrote:Your pretty safe to pour a few cups of water in your carb at a controlled rate, this will clean all the carbon, i used to do it routinly to my last ute
Hydraulic lock anyone?
LoL. Show me a diesel with a carb first
Don't put money on it RockyF70, they do exist, I have seen them on old tractors.
Peter.
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:12 pm
by droopypete
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:15 pm
by zagan
Jimbo wrote:"Mate of mine used to work at Mitsubishi and this was the fix for carbon build up on Lancers - fire crushed nuts into the inlet manifold or something"
A bit off topic but is this common with lancers. My mums lancer runs on and has done it as long as we can remember (had it since new) and i have been told its caused by carbon build up.
Jimmy
Hey I can ask a guy about this see what he says.
This guy is a head mechinc at one of the Wholesale Mitsubishi dealerships in QLD he preps the cars before they goto the dealerships, they in turn prep the cars for the customer.
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:38 pm
by RockyF75
Yeah i found that too (googled 1st before I posted
) but IIRC that was the ONLY google result. I hate google
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:47 pm
by dai-hard
I worked for a ford dealer we used ajax on the cop cars xd/xe 351 falcons
I would but some on the choke flap and bring the revs on till it sucked it thru. THE TEST DRIVES WERE A BLAST.
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:34 am
by Jimbo
Hey I can ask a guy about this see what he says.
That would be great!!
Jimmy
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:34 pm
by juscruisin
AFAIK, shot peening is performed to relieve stress in metal components - it's also applied around stubborn bolts to assist with removal. There may be other applications I am unaware of.
I can't see it making any difference to how well your engine runs.
It used to be popular to shot-peen at least some components (e.g. conrods) when building high-performance motors. Obviously that was done before assembly. The object of this exercise was to improve longevity rather than any performance gain.