The barefoot garage has gone international, rebuilding & cleaning a set carbs for Hermod from Norway 🇳🇴 .
Having a look at the photos you’ll find it hard to believe they were on a running bike, (he rode it before buying it)
From the outside they didn’t look any different in condition to an old set of ours, but bloody hell, open them up and I was smacked with a whole pile of “I’m going to make you work to clean me”
Several times I thought about putting them in the bin as corrosion and electrolysis has eaten into the metals.
From the moment I put a screwdriver onto a jet, the whole bank was dissembled and boiled for a couple of hours before being placed in a bath of brake cleaner for an overnight soak, All the emulsion tubes were caked in some sort of crud and were severely pitted so they were replaced, the parts of the slide needles that were sitting in crappiest part of the tubes were also eaten away.
the bowls had a good 3mm of white powder that had chewed deep pits in them. The idle jets slots were either rotten or chewed away which was super scary for a bit, I’m very glad I had my custom square cut screwdrivers.
All in all they made me work to clean them, but in the end they were running on the rollers and came up pretty good. Once again I’ve evolved my cleaning methods across all sets from now to incorporate all that I found wrong with these
2 nights finishing at 1.30 am each night and about 16 hrs of physical cleaning saw them on their way back across the pond
