Carb Shipping - Remove Solenoid Valves!

[ExpeditionImports]

Hi Guys,

Recently had a customer ship their carbs for rebuild. What should have been a relatively straight forward rebuild and repair has turned into a big expensive mess.

#1 - ALWAYS REMOVE THE SOLENOID VALVES PRIOR TO SHIPPING. The Solenoid valves are fragile and expensive. We have no need for them and can always test the carb with our own in house valves.

#2 - Drain the carbs thoroughly and wrap in plastic. Gasoline smells coming out of packages are a bad thing with the package carriers. Even worse if there is enough fuel to soak the box....

#3 - Wrap, Wrap, and Wrap some more. Take your packaged carbs and throw them on the ground in your packaging. Do you feel comfortable doing that? If so, send them on, if not, package again. Understand, your package will get treated like a football by the carriers. It will be dropped, stepped on, and kicked. Winning a claim against a carriers insurance is difficult, time consuming, and unlikely. "Improper packaging" is the most common claim response.

#4 - Insure the package for replacement value. Nothing worse than your package going missing and you getting the $100 max liability payout.

Cheers,

Scott

[TechMOGogy]

Ouch!

[audiocontr]

Scott,

Are you comfortable providing a general idea of cost for carb rebuilds? Its something that I've been thinking about for quite some time.

[westernair]

shipping delicate parts.
One thing I have found that makes for a good packaging job is to use insulation spray foam.
Take your parts and double bag them. then have a secoundary bags positioned around the parts and fill them with the spray foam. Once the foam has expanded and dried I cut any exxess off the top that keeps the box from closing and then seal her up.
this is as good if not better then a custom cut foam carrier.

[berger]

Scott,

Are you comfortable providing a general idea of cost for carb rebuilds? Its something that I've been thinking about for quite some time.

+1

[ExpeditionImports]

Rough ballpark $300-500 per carb. Huge number of variables.

Do the throttle body shafts need to be replaced/re-bushed?

How many Timeserts need to be installed, how much brass to be replaced, etc., etc.

Simply look at the cost of some of the internal brass pieces and you can easily swing $200 each way.

Cheers,

Scott

[berger]

Rough ballpark $300-500 per carb. Huge number of variables.

Do the throttle body shafts need to be replaced/re-bushed?

How many Timeserts need to be installed, how much brass to be replaced, etc., etc.

Simply look at the cost of some of the internal brass pieces and you can easily swing $200 each way.

Cheers,

Scott

Thanks Scott!

[krick3tt]

Is there a video or an explanation of steps in carb rebuilding?

I seem to recall hearing/reading about one but cannot seem to locate it in the past posts.

[edzz]

An explanation of steps in carb rebuilding
http://www.goatwerks.com/carb.htm

Thank Jim