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Offline 6adan

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Stuck float pins
« on: February 09, 2006, 08:22:36 PM »
I have a set of 76f cabs that need cleaning but the pins holding the floats are stuck and I am afraid to push very hard on them to get them out.Any ideas on how to do this without breaking the cabs? Dannie
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Re: Stuck float pins
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2006, 08:41:03 PM »
spray on some pb blaster and let them sit for a little while...  then take a nail punch or something like it and tappy tap tap your way to a loosened float pin.  you'd have to beat the thing pretty hard to mess it up.   :P ---- try tapping it back and forth to get the corrosion loosened up.
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Re: Stuck float pins
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2006, 11:41:14 PM »
he's lying... there's lots of breakity break break breakable things in there!

mine were a pain too... used a sharp #1 screwdriver and pushed.
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Re: Stuck float pins
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2006, 06:56:33 AM »
Quote from: heffay on February 09, 2006, 11:41:14 PM
he's lying... there's lots of breakity break break breakable things in there!

mine were a pain too... used a sharp #1 screwdriver and pushed.

Heffay's right.  There's more than a couple of guys in this group who broke one of the posts that hold the float assembly in place by tapping on it too hard.  The only remedy then is to replace the carb body.  Go easy on it!
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Re: Stuck float pins
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2006, 07:21:27 AM »
...I've been engrossed in carb work the last 2 weeks.  Last Sunday at Walmart I was browsing through the tool section and picked up a mini Screw driver set for 88 cents.  It has the perfect size phillips screw driver to tap the float pin out.  Also the smallest flathead in the set is great for fishing the air/idle screw rubber seal out...
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