Yeah, the stuff they have now doesn't do much. That's why the carb guy said to use the Dawn in boiling water procedure.

I used the old stuff about 35 years ago (man, I'm old) and I remember being a young guy nothing could hurt me. Reached my hand into the bucket and pulled out my parts and rinsed them off with water and the skin on my hand instantly uncomfortably dry. I used wire or a pliers to pull parts out after that. It did get the parts clean though. The Dawn works pretty good and probably gets into all the crevasses and passage ways. I still had to spray the parts with some spray carb cleaner to clean off some oil film. There was a lot of dirt and oily grime in the water after I was done.

An update, the truck still runs like crap. Cleaned the carb, installed new plugs and replaced the coil. Runs great at idle but under load sounds like a pop corn machine. and quickly gets worse as the engine heats up. Although everything else in the ignition system looks good it's all getting replaced. Should have done this in the first place but didn't for two reasons, I don't have time to tear everything apart, just wanted to patch it together to get it to run, I know, pretty foolish, and I'm cheap, thought if the parts look good then use them. I wasted more time doing piece meal work. Now I just need time to do the rest. I'm really busy in the shop with a huge project for a customer who wants it yesterday and he's putting a lot of pressure on me to get it done. I also have two other big jobs I have to get done at the same time. Trying to find help now is impossible. I hire one body, that is all he is. I end up redoing half of his work even though I've explained to him 2-3 times how I want something done. At times I think he purposely screws up, no one can be this stupid.

 

Oh yes they can. He thinks all he has to do is show up and get paid. No one taught him the any work ethic.

 

The guy I have working for me is in his late 50s. His resume should have been like the Forth of July to me. He hasn't had a job longer than a year and half in the last ten years, most less than a year. I can image he drove his bosses and fellow coworkers nuts. He's a know it all but doesn't know a damn thing. I hired him as a body, someone to help out but most of what he does I have to redo before it goes out my shop. This employee market is horrible. I've interviewed a few other people and they all had absolutely no experience I needed and all wanted to start at $20+/hr. Hell, with over 30 years of experience doing this type of work I've never made over $20/hr and I can do everything from minor design, assembly, installation and start up, all on my own.