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Cleaning Carbon Deposits

Discussion in 'Early CJ5 and CJ6 Tech' started by 53A1, Sep 27, 2008.

  1. 53A1

    53A1 Member

    Is there any magic gas additive (snake oil, cure all elixir, cure for cancer, ect.) to clean carbon off valves & pistons. Does Marvel Mystery Oil work? Is this impossible? Some guy at NAPA told me you can add Kerosene to your gas but I'm not going to try anything until I fully research it.

    Thanks.
     
  2. kaiser_willys

    kaiser_willys Well-Known Member

    the easy way, but it makes one hell of a stink is to drive it to a remote location far away from people:rofl: with the engine hot and still running put a few drops of automatic transmission fluid down the throat of the carb, it will smoke like a freight train but it will loosen that crap right up, seafoam works well also and dont stink or none of that, you just add it to your gas, wouldnt recomend kerosene though
     
  3. vajeeper

    vajeeper Member

    I've added about 3/4 of a dixie cup of water to the carb very slowly - once the engine was at full operating temperature. This seems to have worked for me.
     
  4. jpflat2a

    jpflat2a what's that noise?

    aerosol products are on the market
    you introduce them while at very fast idle, 2500rpm or so
    empty the can, shut it off and wait, per instructions
    re-start and play throttle jockey
    as mentioned, smokes like crazy, so do it weel away from the populace....
    the factory Jeep carbon remover always worked well for me
     
  5. cj6/442

    cj6/442 Sponsor

    I use the water trick ,but you nedd to be carefull not to hydro the motor .
     
  6. Ggg

    Ggg Member

    I also use good ol H2O. I put it into an old squirt gun so I can control the amount of water squirted into the engine.
     
  7. Homebrew2

    Homebrew2 Member

    Same here in a squirt bottle.
     
  8. green71jeep

    green71jeep work in progress

    Water tricks works great used it on a friends motor awhile bcak pistons looked like new afterwards.Just took a bottle water kicked the idle up a ways a started pouring very slowly till it was gone.