Arse! Carb Cleaner Ate My Rubber

Wynn's carb cleaner. Lovely stuff.

Only, there's these little rubber diaphragms in the sides of the carbs.

Or more accurately, there *were* these little rubber... :^(

It's also slightly disconcerting that despite *completely* stripping the
carbs there are five or six bits in the rebuild kit that have no obvious
home. Heigh-ho...

 

Are you sure it was just the Wynns doing it not just that the diaphragms
were perished, anyway? I used to use loads of the stuff during my
murrican car days and never had it do that to any of them.

Again, from murrican car experience, particularly with Holley carbs,
there'd be a lot of parts common to all their models in a range. Fer
instance, the Holley Vacuum Secondary models and the Double-Pumpers were
pretty much identical 'cept for the way the secondary flutterbys and jets
were actuated. So, a 600cfm v/s and a 600cfm DP would likely share the
same basic throttle-body.

As a result, a rebuild kit would /always/ contain bits you didn't need;
different or extra springs, different "squirters", gaskets and more.
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