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just had a thought, unrelated to my carby problems at teh moment.

I was thinkin of pouring a hand full of sunlong rice down the carby (only a couple of grains at a time) to shot pein the cylinders. has anyone else done this? dad used to do it to his race bikes but i don't think he ever did a car engine.



whaddda ya think, might it run better?

Are you serious?????

Do you use short or long grain? Or is long grain too pointy?

use Aborio rice









just kidding dunno

Never actually heard of it being done, but theres enough room for a few grains in the cylinders. Why would you ever do it though? If one of those grains gets inbetween the valve and its seat...

this ment to relate to a "rice burner" or something like that?

junior80 wrote:just had a thought, unrelated to my carby problems at teh moment.

I was thinkin of pouring a hand full of sunlong rice down the carby (only a couple of grains at a time) to shot pein the cylinders. has anyone else done this? dad used to do it to his race bikes but i don't think he ever did a car engine.



whaddda ya think, might it run better?

And this kids, is why you dont smoke crack



Layto....

i have heard of ajax diluted with water then let it be sucked out of yourhand while reving the motor suposed to help deglaze the bore but not rice in the donk

Not exactly firing it into the cylinders...however on large diesels they clean the exhaust/turbine side of the turbo chargers but injecting rice or crushed nuts. The air/compressor side is cleaned by injecting water.

" Say No to drugs man!

I've heard of powdered Ajax being dropped down the carby. Rev the engine to around 3000rpm, then drop a handful of Ajax down the throat and juggle the throttle to keep it running. Supposed to help glazed bores, or something...

-Scott- wrote:I've heard of powdered Ajax being dropped down the carby. Rev the engine to around 3000rpm, then drop a handful of Ajax down the throat and juggle the throttle to keep it running. Supposed to help glazed bores, or something...

Do you get bubbles out the exhaust?

well the old boy was a bit hesitant to let me do it to the zook but apparently it does work, you have to get your technique down pat tho or bye bye engine.

I rekon it would farking stink

don't think I'll do it.

junior80 wrote:well the old boy was a bit hesitant to let me do it to the zook but apparently it does work, you have to get your technique down pat tho or bye bye engine.

I rekon it would farking stink

don't think I'll do it.

Yeh save it for the rice burners
to much rice & it will run rich
to little will run lean
So unless you've worked in a chinese resturant tread carefully

why would you want to shot pien the cylinders????

As stated about large diesels, I have use peanut sheels to clean large turbos. But I wouldn't do it on anything small.

junior80 wrote:well the old boy was a bit hesitant to let me do it to the zook but apparently it does work, you have to get your technique down pat tho or bye bye engine.

I rekon it would farking stink

don't think I'll do it.

Try it on the mower or somethin' first. Cummon, doit doit, you know you want to...

Chucky wrote:As stated about large diesels, I have use peanut sheels to clean large turbos. But I wouldn't do it on anything small.

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 bloke down here as just started up a walnut farm and he said he gets as much or more money from the shells as he does from the nuts!
They used crushed walnut shells to clean jet turbines he reckons.
As for pouring shit into your carby... you do it first
I think I will pass.

You know whats really funny.

You can't just chuck a couple bits of rice in there willy nilly, you have to do it with style other wise it'll stuff the engine.

Mate there'd be no bloody style to it, I mean what's the differance between a hand full of rice chucked in the engine compared to 20 bits.

None at the end of the day when you think about it.

Plus racing motorbike engines won't be the same as whats in your 4wd, for a start it'd be getting torn down and re-built every few months.

like i said, i don't think I'll be doing it.

"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

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

Why not try corn kernels...then with any luck your motor will be clean and you will have popcorn coming from your exhaust

Yes it can be done if you like rice bubbles or throw some cocao in to make coco pops.

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?

i'm guessing he's not talking about a diesel,

Water is ok but not much. sqirter bottle would be ok at a guess.

Best u try the aussie tune up instead.

Start it up, choose a good road and floor it till the valves bounce. properly bedded in and carb tuned.

Nic

if it has a carbon problem use either Subaru engine cleaner as per instruction or Holden top end cleaner. both work very well. The subaru one is actually part of every service on there whole range.
As for the rice throw in some prawns and water instant rissotto!!

turbo gu wrote:if it has a carbon problem use either Subaru engine cleaner as per instruction or Holden top end cleaner. both work very well. The subaru one is actually part of every service on there whole range.
As for the rice throw in some prawns and water instant rissotto!!

When i used to work for holden, we used the top end cleaner heaps. Worked good on some cars, but on the really high km older ones, it sometimes removed the carbon round the rings and lost some compression.

Layto....

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