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Cleaning solutions for the intake



Carb cleaner to the rescue, that what I use.

Brian


>From: Jerry Carter <jerry.carter@shaw.ca>
>To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Cleaning solutions for the intake
>Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 23:56:30 -0800
>
>Hey all,
>I have a slight problem stemming from a problem that it did have (I 
>assume).
>For a little over a year this car sat, I'd take it out and run it for about
>10 Min. a month but not much more than that. well, I got back to it
>recently, and decided that this would be my new daily driver, so i started
>working on it, whith help from my Chev mechanic father in law. well, after
>some time we had every adjustment that could be made set way off, and I had
>a backfiring issue, but now that I've got that fixed, the inside of my
>airbox is all gummed up with something that resembles tar. it can be wiped
>off, but I can't get into every little crevice and I don't really want to 
>be
>that hard on the Air Folw arm.
>
>Is there an easy to use chemical that could get this off without harming 
>all
>of the injection bits in there, and leaving my airbox (essentially) intact?
>Right now I'm thinking carb cleaner, or simple green or something like 
>that,
>I just don't know what to try first! If anyone has some experience with 
>this
>any input would be apprecieated (even more so if I could spell it right!)
>
>_________________
>Jerry C
>'81 Mk1 Scirocco
>
>
>
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