[T2] new-fangled stuff can work

[Robert Mann]

Happy New Year Volks
	                  I can report very good 
results from a new-fangled spray I'd never heard 
of.
	My 1600dp with Brazilian 'Weber' carb has 
been faltering in a very big way between 1/8 & 
3/4 throttle, as if a jet is blocked.  It had 
become a trial, even a danger, at every slow 
intersection by refusing to supply fuel over most 
of the accelerator-pedal range, often stalling. 
The carb was expensively rebuilt not many miles 
ago, and so I have been reluctant to take the 
carb off and clean it again.  I therefore gambled 
$7 at Don's Emporium on a 12-oz aerosol can of 
Valspar® Renew throttle body cleaner (contains 
mainly acetone but also heptane & carbon dioxide).
	The mfr's claims are precisely:
		Quickly removes deposits and 
carbon build up from throttle bodies, 
carburetors, chokes and choke linkage.

   Could not have been easier:
1  warm up engine
2  lift air-cleaner nozzle off top of carb
3  rev engine to 3000 - 4000 rpm
4  spray Renew down carb intake
	The engine promptly quits firing, so you 
quit spraying within a second to allow the engine 
to rev up anew.
	Result: drive off suavely without hesitation let alone stalling.
	Repeat after a mile or so, to make sure 
you've done as much as Renew can do; then replace 
air filter nozzle on carb.  Drive off 
ultra-suavely, crooning 'nothing can stop us now, 
'cause we're the Dukes of Earl'.

	I vaguely infer some varnish or other 
soluble deposit had blocked a jet.  (I have never 
understood Solex or Weber i.e fixed-jet carbs; I 
claim at most a partial understanding of 
throttle-slide carbs e.g  Amal.)


	I know nothing of, let alone having any 
investment in, Valspar Inc.  And I can have no 
opinion whatever on any rival 'throttle body 
cleaner'; indeed I've never heard of such 
mixtures.  All I can say is, my bus is now going 
like new.  Even if I hadn't scored a special 
bargain $7 from Unca Donald, this cleaner spray 
would be a bargain compared with dismantling the 
carb.
	I can't imagine any harm from this stuff.

	I do suddenly see some glimmer of truth 
in the slogan "the lazy way can be the best".


-- 
Robt Mann
Whangaparaoa, New Zealand
'73 VW 1600dp Devon camper
'53 Meteor V8
various Jawa-CZ and Jawa-NZ strokers