Association Forum - Crap in a carb

Assn Members Area · Join

Home.

Association Forum

Ships Store

Cruising

Racing

Technical Tips

Photo Gallery - New

Boat Search - Updated

Manuals & Brochures

Swap Meet

Links

Officer Flag Line & Staff

Bylaws & Constitution

Members Area

Join the Association

Notice:
The advice given on this site is based upon individual or quoted experience, yours may differ.
The Officers, Staff and members of this site only provide information based upon the concept that anyone utilizing this information does so at their own risk and holds harmless all contributors to this site.

Association Forum

Username:	Password:
Save Password
Forgot your Password?

All Forums

Catalina/Capri 25/250 Sailor's Forums

General Sailing Forum

Crap in a carb

New Topic

Topic Locked

Printer Friendly

Author

Topic

delliottg
Former Mainsheet C250 Tech Editor

Member Avatar

USA
4479 Posts

Initially Posted - 08/09/2013 : 20:14:02

I think I can categorically say I've got crap throughout the carb on my little Coleman/Parsun 5hp dinghy OB. Take a look at what I filtered out of the carb "cleaner":

That's about the 9th or 10th coffee filter full of swarf that was inside the can of cleaner. I filtered it through coffee filters into mason jars, cleaned the interior of the can, and then filtered it again back into the can from the jars. The last three filters were pretty clean of metal particles. I have NO idea how that got in there, I've only used the cleaner on two carbs, and neither had any metal particles in them when I started cleaning them. It looks like someone sat over the can with a mill bastard file and a block of aluminum over their lunch break or something.

I found a chunk of the metal inside one of the jets and was able to push it out with a piece of fine brass wire. I've got the whole thing sitting in the cleaner-cleaner for the night, and I'll put it back together tomorrow and see what I get.

I just want to get this thing sold or traded, but hard to do when it won't rev up for a potential buyer!

David
C-250 Mainsheet Editor

Sirius Lepak
1997 C-250 WK TR #271 --Seattle area Port Captain --

Edited by - on

britinusa
Web Editor

Members Avatar

USA
5404 Posts

Response Posted - 08/10/2013 : 06:21:10

Wow!
I happen to be servicing my dingy outboard today. I follow the same process, clean the carb, then filter the cleaner, inspect to see what grunge it was able to extract.

Paul

Edited by - on

dmpilc
Master Marine Consultant

Members Avatar

USA
4593 Posts

Response Posted - 08/10/2013 : 11:05:54

Isn't the Parson made in China?

Edited by - on

delliottg
Former Mainsheet C250 Tech Editor

Members Avatar

USA
4479 Posts

Response Posted - 08/10/2013 : 11:42:41

Yes, it's made in China, but sold here in the US by Coleman. They sell for about $1k in Cabela's & Walmart. I got this one in brand new condition in a trade for a rifle. It ran great until it got the bad gas in it. It didn't even have oil in it yet when I got it. When I went to go look at it, I brought a can of oil & a five gallon bucket to run it in. The owner's dad said his son had bought it just before he got deployed and never got a chance to even use it. Interests changed and he was far more interested in a new rifle than this OB.

Edited by - on

Topic

New Topic

Topic Locked

Printer Friendly

Jump To:

Association Forum

Notice: The advice given on this site is based upon individual or quoted experience, yours may differ.
The Officers, Staff and members of this site only provide information based upon the concept that anyone utilizing this information does so at their own risk and holds harmless all contributors to this site.