Cleaning out pipes <insert bad joke here>
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nambo-trev
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thats actually a really smart idea bro i never thought of that!
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I either ate something or contracted something that severly cleaned my pipes out yesterday. Ended up heading home from work early. This morning wasn't much better. <bad joke inserted - but true story>
Never cleaned mine out, but I image you have a few options. Either was the inside out with some kind of chemical to break down and reduce the build up (this sounds messy) or burn it all out with a torch.
Never cleaned mine out, but I image you have a few options. Either was the inside out with some kind of chemical to break down and reduce the build up (this sounds messy) or burn it all out with a torch.
Old school trick I learned on my 1979 IT 175. It was street legal. My high shool transportation.
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It only takes a session of this to make you ponder the accuracy of all those hippies that spout crap like "the average person has 10lbs of undigested meat in their bowls" "Colonic irrigation yady yah"
Nah man, 2nd sitting of the squirts & I'm empty. Then when its coming out water & that water has virtually lost its colour you wonder why your body is still fighting this. You have to sleep on a towel just in case & you don't trust a fart for a week after.
I've never tried this on a pipe, but it works on rusty/dirty steel gas tanks: Pour in about a 1/4 gallon of Diesel and some of that clean white chat rock like they use in gardens. You can get the rock from Home Depot or any place with a garden center. Seal both ends. Duct tape works, or make plugs from a big ball of duct tape, or even a rag. Make sure the chat-rock is clean before you use it. Take a torch or Map gas to the outside of the pipe and heat it all over. Shake the crap out of it for a couple minutes, let it set and cool off until you can handle it, then repeat the process 3-4 times. It also helps to twist and turn it every which-way between heat/shake cycles to distribute the diesel and rock. Pour out the rock and diesel, which you can save and reuse if you want. Heat it again, and flush it out with diesel but without the rocks, then finally blow it out with high pressure air to make sure you get out all the mix. 90% or more of the carbon will come out with the diesel and rocks. If you have a stubborn rock or two that doesn't want to come out, flush it with a garden hose, then blow it dry again with the compressed air.
Someone will, like I did, figure that gasoline or kerosene will work better and break up more carbon faster, which it will. Just remember you are using an open flame. Remember that if you use gas, you have just made a bomb of your pipe! Diesel is far less flammable. You might have to work a little harder on the shaking part with Diesel, but you'll also be more likely to survive. So will the pipe.
Someone will, like I did, figure that gasoline or kerosene will work better and break up more carbon faster, which it will. Just remember you are using an open flame. Remember that if you use gas, you have just made a bomb of your pipe! Diesel is far less flammable. You might have to work a little harder on the shaking part with Diesel, but you'll also be more likely to survive. So will the pipe.
GGMan, I also rode an old Yamaha to school. 76 DT 175. No where near the bike the 79 IT was, but it was a reliable old scoot. Only reason I didn't get kicked out of school for riding a long wheelie in front of the school, beside the full school busses, with most of the students watching was that I was at least smart enough to borrow a full face street bike helmet so they couldn't positively ID me. My principal was so cool, he later told me he knew I did it but no one got hurt, and it was a great wheelie so he let it slide.
Then a riding buddy tried it the following year on an XR 200, and flipped over backwards in front of everyone! He got embarrassed, got road rash, got a spanking, (yes, they still did that in rural Ar. in the 80s), and got expelled for 3 days. And had to buy a new back fender and new set of bars.
Moral of the story? If you're gonna show off, don't screw up, and don't get caught!
Then a riding buddy tried it the following year on an XR 200, and flipped over backwards in front of everyone! He got embarrassed, got road rash, got a spanking, (yes, they still did that in rural Ar. in the 80s), and got expelled for 3 days. And had to buy a new back fender and new set of bars.
Moral of the story? If you're gonna show off, don't screw up, and don't get caught!
Caustic soda (NaOH or Lye) is supposed to be good for decarbonising if left standing for 24hours or so. Not on ali though as it attacks it.
Caustic soda as the name implies is powerful stuff so care and protective gear is needed
Headers aren't ali as far as I know although the tail pipes are.
Viv
Caustic soda as the name implies is powerful stuff so care and protective gear is needed
Headers aren't ali as far as I know although the tail pipes are.
Viv
