Started working on my spare carb set with the melted boots. Man that muk is the worst thing known to man. Completely liquid from the rack on up.
I have been wanting to try a propane torch on the muck to see what it would do.Well guy's -- it works! Turns hard and dry and sluffs right off.
I tried first on the slide lifer threads. The first pic the muck is already charred. The second pic is after running it across the wire wheel. A 6" wheel on the bench grinder.
Then I tried it on an adjuster nut. There are 3 pics. Before char, after char and after wire wheel.'
I was born with nothing and still have most of it left.
It's VILE stuff, isn't it? The boots on mine were exactly the same. I made the mistake of not using gloves when removing it, too. Finally got my hands clean after about 5 days
1976 GT380 - wounded by me, and sold on
2006 SV650S - killed by a patch of diesel and a kerb in Feb 2019
2017 SV650 AL7 - naked and unashamed
Its ghastly. It will - just - clean up with copious carb cleaner spray, but it will de-fat the fingertips so badly that its like human fixative afterwards. Plus what Craig says. I get black looks (hah!) from my wife if I've done such a job.
Mike
Its actually not melted rubber boot. It is a sealing grease they apply on there to eliminate air leaks. I used to have the Suzuki number for it but cant find it currently. Its really nasty stuff, but its there for a purpose.
Stuff is hell to get off the fingers.
Your picture actually looks like chunks of rubber. But on mine the boots were trashed, but black vacuum grease was in there for sealing purposes.
I wish I had taken a before pic. The boots were completely melted into puddles of indescribable glop. Stuck all over everything above the bracket. If you touch it, it spreads like a disease. I have seen this many times on bikes that have been rebuilt -- without any sort of grease. That's what the little clamps are for. I prefer zip ties myself.
It wouldn't be so bad if replacements were $2-3 dollars a piece ----- and THEY had to clean it up.
I was born with nothing and still have most of it left.
