Bud Rolofson wrote:
>
[...]
>
> Gotta send a mild flame to Reed on his flammable carb cleaner warning. I've
> never seen carb cleaner flame up and in fact thought that the reason you used
>it
> to check vacuum leaks is because it's not flammable and thus if it's sucked
>into
> a vacuum leak it makes the idle speed drop. The can of carb cleaner that I
>have
> (Gumout) even says on the can that it's non-flammable.
>
I've never seen it burn on contact with an exhaust manifold, but ...
If you want to see flames, hold a lit lighter about a foot in front of
your carb cleaner can and press the button ... But maybe thats the propellent ?
And if you blow up, it's you're own darn fault ;-)
I think the reason it drops your idle is not so much that it doesn't
burn, but is messes up your mixture.
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Reed Mideke rmideke@interbase.com
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