Land Cruiser, driving outside the box for over 40 years!
Alan Loshbaugh, Columbia, MO., TLCA, BMWMOA, MGNOC, DIOC, BMWCCA.
'65 FJ45L-under construction,'76 FJ40-The Black Beast, 68 M715-The Hulk
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Dave Cole wrote:
> Message text written by INTERNET:komual@showme.missouri.edu
> >If carbon up is causing run on try this...get a spray bottle of water,
> remove the air cleaner, and fire her up. Spray a fine mist of water down
> the throat til she starts to choke up and die, you may want to bump up the
> idle speed...Ddo this for a minute or two, and you will steam clean out a
> large portion of the carbon. Higher octane, and retarding the timing a
> little will also help...<
>
> I was also going to mention the water through the carb trick, but I thought
> I might be labeled as crazy! Actually on a bigger engine like a 350 chevy,
> you can actually pour the water into the carb. It is really amazing the
> amount of water you can pour in before killing the engine. Just put one
> hand on the throttle and another on the container and dribble it into the
> carb while reving up the engine. It does seem to make a big difference on
> engines with a lot of carbon formations in the combustion chambers. It
> sounds crazy, but it works. An old racer told me that trick when I was a
> kid.
>
> Dave
>
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