# Best Carburetor Cleaner? Motorheads, Check In!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-carburetor-cleaner-motorheads-check-in/798702>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-carburetor-cleaner-motorheads-check-in/798702 "2017-10-13T05:05:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-carburetor-cleaner-motorheads-check-in/798702/21 "2017-10-16T06:10:36Z")

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Adventures in Carb rebuilding:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=839080](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=839080)

Goddamn, these Webers seem overly complicated. About 100 little tiny parts and more stuff to adjust than I could ever afford!

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-carburetor-cleaner-motorheads-check-in/798702/22 "2017-10-16T12:23:32Z")

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> [@Pork\_Rind](#):
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> One thing I recall hearing about a couple of years ago; whatever used to be in Pine Sol that made it good (Pine juice?) at what it did was removed and replaced with something much cheaper and crappier.
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> Relatively on topic: [Can you really clean a carburetor with Pine Sol?](http://www.enginelabs.com/news/video-can-you-really-clean-a-carburetor-with-pine-sol/) Verdict in this article is yes, sort of.

If it’s pine juice, that would be turpentine, which would make sense of why it would work, but why not just use diluted turpentine then?

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