Carb Crust in Float Bowls???, Webber 40ida3c Options

[Mike D.]

I got carb kits just clean and freshen up the webbers on the 6 engine while it is out of the car. Well, when I opened them up I found in one float bowl some crusty yellowish white stuff. I sprayed with some carb cleaner brushed it with a tooth brush wiped it out and blew it with some air and more white crust appeared. What is this and how do I get rid of it? This stuff could obviously clog up jets, which is no good.

I also found that one of the floats is dented, like some PO (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) droped it and steped on it, I floats though, should I be concerned about that?


TIA,
Mike D.

[need4speed]

Wow.
This sounds so familliar to me. My 34-PICT on my Ghia does this - and I thought it was calcium deposits setlling out of the gasoline.

But now that you mention it, my Dellortos on the 912 engine don't have this problem at all. They were always clean and shiny.

So why in god's name was this material chosen for making carbs?