Topic: Best way to restore stiff carburetor boots?

[75 super sport]

My carburetor boots on my 75 cb750f are pretty stiff and i was searching for a cheap way to restore them. any advice helps, thanks in advance.

[nayto550]

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=29707.0

This will do it.

[75 super sport]

i like the way that sounds, but it is pretty hard to find wintergreen oil anymore. any other ideas??

[nayto550]

This is the cheapest I could find it in a hurry.  3 of those bottles would mix up about a 1/2 gallon of the xylene/wintergreen mixture.

[lone*X]

Forget pharmaceutical wintergreen.  Tire Prep #12 for go carts and quarter midgets.  Enough for lots of rubber parts.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tire+prep+12&_sacat=0&_odkw=go+cart+tire+treatment&_osacat=0&_from=R40

[stampederunner]

I put mine in a crock pot I got from the thrift store for 2 bucks then filled with water until the boots were covered and added about 4oz of wintergreen. I left them cooking in the crock pot for about 6 hours and they came out as good as new! I did this about a year ago and just had the carbs off a few weeks ago and they are still nice and pliable.