Mikuni carb cleaning?

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Mikuni carb cleaning?

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I am trying to clean a carb for my bro. It had been sitting for 3 years and the main jet had 1/4" of hard goo sitting in the hole. No wonder the carb was flooding.

But how in the world do i get this float off? I am trying to dunk it for a bit and can't figure out how to remove.
Carb is off a Perispeed Cheetah XS (engine is made by TGB).

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The float pin should slide out to the side.
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Fishman43 wrote:The float pin should slide out to the side.
Thats what i was thinking, but it doesn't slide very easily. I just didn't want to break something that shouldn't be broken.
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Greetings:

Fuel residues turn into very effective Epoxies. You might consider pre-soaking the pin area in solvent for a day Prior to putting pin-punch pressure to the float pin. That's the only way to drop the slide. Frustrating because when it isn't gummed in, the pin's a Bee-Yotch to keep it from falling out when you don't want it to.
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Got it. It just needed a little tap-tap tapper-oo.
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