Carburetor rebuild project.

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Yep,,,use hot water and and air blower for a lot of the small carb holes,,,

That's exactly what I ended up doing ... Seems a bit counter intuitive cleaning a carb with water .

You are talking about the white plastic elbow and float??? They seem to hold up to the solvents. I have been pretty good at a quick n dirty carb cleaning. I will take the mower or what ever and put it on the bench. Unscrew the float bowl nut and pop the bowl off, wipe it out and rinse it out with carb clean and shoot it right up the main jet and pop it back together. Unless it is really bad. Then it takes some elbow grease.

Yeah, mine had a white plastic horseshoe shaped float, and a tiny torpedo shaped valve also made out of plastic. The valve also had a small rubber seat gasket as I recall, and those were the pieces I was really concerned with. I ended up taking the carb completely off the mower and disassembling it to get it clean. Glad I did, as a couple of small parts popped lose as soon as I removed the float, and I never would have found them otherwise.

Cheers
Mike