carb problems, berryman, seafoam, stabil, yamaha carb cleaner.

[jerry hayes]

I took the stock muffler off about a year ago,,,put the supertrapp on. The Supertrapp appears to have deteriorated from the inside. Anyway,,,I am putting the stocker back on and i need to put the asbestos like gasket back on the stock header. I,m not sure exactly what it is called but it fills the space between the stock head pipe and the stock muffler pipe, --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Randy Jackson]

Several years ago, Berryman had an ad in Pop Mechanics, other mags, their cleaner vs brand X. Both poured into styrofoam cups. 15 seconds or so, Berryman cleaner had eaten bottom out of cup. Brand X just sitting there. Stuff works good. TOO good. Seems to be OK if you have relatively new vehicle, machine, or equipment OR ALL NEW Rubber, gaskets, hoses, o-rings, etc, in the fuel system. If system is as little as a couple years old with inferior quality rubber or just old and deteriorating, it will attack rubber, plug up system big time.... If you are going to dip or soak carb in Berryman or Most carb soak solvent, you need to completely strip carb down to bare body. Carb soaks WILL destroy seals, packings, o-rings in carb. Even spraying Berryman B-12 on CV Carb diaphram can damage it. IMHO & experience, far safer to use is Yamaha Fuel System Cleaner. I use it for carb dip, it does NOT harm seals, packing, etc... Usually you do not even have to remove carb from bike.. I drain carb, hook up aux fuel supply to carb fuel hose, run 50/50 mix of Yamaha cleaner, fresh gas to carb, let sit overnight. Drain, fill tank with fresh gas, Usually will fire up. I will use 4 -6 oz of SeaFoam in the 1st tank of gas, that usually finishes up the cleaning of the carb. If that proceedure does not work, the carb has really plugged up badly, OR has mechanical problems like bad needles, jets, etc... That is when I remove carb, pull float bowl, jets, check diaphram, look for any mechanical damage, then soak carb in Yamaha cleaner overnight. SeaFoam has taken the place of Stabil, Marvel Mystery Motor Oil, and Chevron Techron for me... It works much better than Stabil for gas preservation, lubricates as well as MMMO, cleans as well as Techron. Problem used to be finding the stuff. For years the majority of users of product was Marine Outboard motor & small engine repair shops. Was hard to find on a retail level. Now NAPA carries the stuff as well as Pep Boys, Advance Auto Parts, maybe AutoZone as well. I have learned all this the hard way. Being an OTR Trucker, gone for too long at a time, trying to keep too many bikes ready & willing to start & run when I do get home, is not an easy task... Dual Sports I have: As titled, tagged runners: '85 KLR600, '86 KLR250, '86 KLR600, '90 KLR650 Tengai, '95 KLR 650 Ken & Barbie, '98 KLR650. '93 KLX650C. Several KLR600, 650 partzers.. Yamaha runners: '93,'99 TW200's, 2000 TTR225. And lastly a '74 Honda CL360 wannabe DS.. Don't even get me started on the Street & Road bikes.... Later, Randy Jackson Spicewood, TX AMA 278399 (American Motorcyclist Association) VJMC 3173 (Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club) GWRRA 175436 (Gold Wing Road Riders Association) XS/XJ 1100 Yamaha Owners Association FSSNOC (Four Stroke Singles National Owners Club)