[TR] Pickling Carbs

[glemon at neb.rr.com]

I would think easiest and cheapest would be to drain all gas out and spray some carb or brake cleaner through various orifices to rinse the rest out. 

Greg Lemon
TR250

---- wbeech <wbeech at flash.net> wrote: 
> I'm with Patrick, I have packed SU carbs away in good ziplocks and had no
> problems with they were re-installed.  Just be sure to blow them out so they
> are clean and dry first.
> Bill B
>  
> From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Patrick
> Baize
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 10:57 AM
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [TR] Pickling Carbs
>  
> I actually did that for my Stag carbs,  stored them for a year.  double bag
> them though.  they were fine when I put them back on.
> Tehachapi  isn't that where the train tracks do a loop?
> Patrick
> 71 Stag
> 74 Spitfire
>  
>  
> On 1/7/2017 9:58 AM, Bill Brewer wrote:
>      I have had a semi-catastrophic engine failure awhile back in my TR6. I
> just had the ZS carbs rebuilt about 6 months ago by Paltech and they work
> perfectly. I may not me be able to get to the TR6 engine for a year or two -
> I have a couple of other engine jobs lined up before I can get to it. I was
> wondering if there was a way to pull the carbs and pickle them so that when
> I put them back on they are not all gummed up. I was thinking of soaking
> them in carb cleaner or WD40, something that can be found in a large can for
> not too much money. Maybe I should run them through carb cleaner and then
> lube them with WD40 and put them in Ziploc bags or something.
>      Any ideas?
>      TIA,
>  
>      Bill in Tehachapi
> 
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