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Thanks to Phil and Walrus3--you're both extremely helpful and knowledgeable, and I appreciate the input you gave for my engine paint (I painted it--it looks great), but I have a few more questions on my B18 carbs. Walrus3--I opened up the float valves, and the gas in there, as well as the interior of the chambers, looked pretty clean. Should the funky old gas that was running through there since we started her up have crudded up these valves as well? Or does this indicate they were recently cleaned? The mechanic drained the old gas, ran some air through the tank, and put some new gas in, so did that do enough to make it look as good as they did in there? Phil, what was the rosy-pink fluid I poured out of the shaft (cylinder) that housed the damping plunger? It sure didn't look like oil, but what else could it be? I cleaned out one carb, but for the car's neglect I expected something worse than a thin film of black in the Q-tips. That black was only barely evident with my bare eye as a dulling of the metallic color on the inside of the piston (?). Is that as bad as it should have been? Lastly, my mechanic is reccomending rebulding the carbs while I'm opening them up to clean them, but that was done 8 yrs ago--immediately before the car was never driven and put to "sleep." Is this worth doing again now, and if so is this something I could do myself (he wants to do them)? As you may guess, I'm new to working on my car, but am very game to learn and do it "right"for those things I can.
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