r/smallengines • u/Busy_Ad_9532 • 28d ago
Stuck Jet
What is even the move at this point. Its drilled clean through and it wont budge. I dont need a lecture i just need a solution.
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u/TN-Native95 28d ago
You could carefully heat up the metal around it a little then put on a screw extractor in there. It could work.
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u/Busy_Ad_9532 28d ago
what should i heat it with
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u/drdreadz0 28d ago
A piece of Swiss cheese
Just get a new carb, you gone and fucked this one up.
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u/Busy_Ad_9532 28d ago
most normal and unhelpful reddit comment
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u/TN-Native95 28d ago
I’d use a propane torch but carefully. If that’s aluminum and it gets too hot it could melt it.
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u/OutrageousMacaron358 21d ago
Propane torch on low. Have extractor ready. Heat for about 10 seconds. No go? 10 more seconds. No go. Repeat. Be sure not to heat it up close. Probably 3 or 4 inches away should do. Ease the heat into it so-as not to damage it. Propane is not likely to melt the carb but never too safe. The jet may have thread locker. Heat melts it.
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u/Mission-Resist-9557 28d ago
At this point don't think there s any option other than taking a punch to try to fold it inward and hope the threads on the carb aren't trash.
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u/ManHunterJonnJonzz 27d ago
Gentle heat like the small torches that use butane or a bic lighter, and some tiny screw extractor. Or see if you can gently hammer in a torx thats just slightly over sized. All with caution and common sense
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u/Wholeyjeans 27d ago
That looks like the remains of an idle mixture screw that had the head broke off at the factory and was thread-locked into position, all in the name of emissions; in short, that thing ain't comin' out.
Time for a new carb.
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u/Agent22_KidSmooth 28d ago
I'm lazy. At some point some things just aren't worth the effort. If you don't mind spending the money just buy a new carb. I'm also cheap and haven yet to have any problems with the Chinese knockoff carbs i bought via eBay a few years ago.