eBay ripoffs: These were a set that I
picked up on eBay but once received were hardly as described, and if you
look at the bowls you can just imagine what they stunk like. I am not one
to suffer the smell of decayed gasoline, and it is one of the worst smells
I can think of next to decomp. Determined not to lose on these I chose
to detail them and put them back on eBay. A fellow in FL who has a gorgeous
souped up CB750F got them.
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"Spoom's" trike carbs: A freind won a trike on
eBay that had sat in the weather quite a few years, and at fist glance
did not look that bad. Once opened up it was painfully obvious the previous
owner did not drain the bowls, and to boot water had made it's way into
a couple and the aluminum castings had corroded away in places to nothing
but dust. Two of the four brass floats were shot as well. Fortunately he
had sent another set to be detailed as well and we ended up combining the
two racks to make one good one using the all the chrome goodies from the
trike's set and the good castings and such from the spare set. There was
a lot of rust coming through the chrome on the steel parts but fortunately
it had not done too much damage and the rust was removed with a little
coaxing. The final set turnde out extremely nice.
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"Streeracer75's" carbs: Another Honda Chopper head
had come up to visit for a while when Spoom stopped over on his way home
to WI and I had asked him to bring a #2 casting for a set I was working
on. He shows up with essentially and ENTIRE rack and just handed them to
me. As thing turned out I did not need the #2 right away so out of gratitude
for his generosity I detailed the set he gave me and brought them back
to him. We popped them on the bike which had been sitting cold for days
and one kick was all it took. Well, we did have to switch out the float
valve needels as the ones in it were not correct and refused to shut off.
Once replace the carbs worked perfectly and looked good on the bike.
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