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The CBR1000F I bought sat for over 2 years.   The carbs were completely gummed up.   I have followed the Clymers manual and Online tips and have taken the carbs apart right down to bare metal.   I have order Gasket kit A, and a few other parts from ww.servicehonda.com.

The question I have is should I soak the carb bodies, or pay my local shop 90 bucks for an ultra sonic clearning.

I am leaning toward soaking the carb bodies myself and them blowing them out with a compressor.   This way I can also soak the jets and blow those out.  How long should I leave this stuff in the solution? 

Thanks,

Tom

Didn't Greg Brady boil his carburetor????? 

Soak it long enough to get the gunk off.

badfish '05 600RR Purple/Black

You don't want the soup I made!

Ended up going to Autozone.   They have a bucket you can buy to dip carbs into.   In addition it has a nice little parts basket to put things into to dip those also.   20 minutes per carb body yielded lots of funk when you blew them out with the compressor.   The low (idle) jets were the worst...

Now just waiting on all the gasket sets to show up at the door.   I have seen posts that you should apply gasoline to the gaskets them before installing?   Any thoughts?