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I wonder if I could clean the inside of the pipe? I have some ideas but it would be nice to know if you ever done this before. The pipe is 15 years old and I suppose it's have a lot of carbon inside.

My idea is to put a full can of easy-off in the pipe. Let it soak for a while. Then after, I will put a bunch of old big nuts and shake it?

Good idea?

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I am doing the same with mine. But I filled mine with gas and let it soak for a few days. It takes about a half gallon.

Then I will use pea gravel and shake it. :grin:
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I've heard oven cleaner as well and then burn it off with a torch.
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"Old Trick"

Remove the pipe from the bike, remover the silencer/spark-arrestor. Now use a rubber plug or cork in the silencer end of the pipe.

Now pour about a half of a can of drain cleaner into the head pipe, next fill the pipe with hot water and step back. The pipe will get very hot and you will hear and see bubbling. Let it set for about a 1/2 hour then pour it out and remove the cork and rinse the pipe in cold water.

If your pipe is really carboned up you may need to do the above procedure a couple of times.

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Try this method. Put a cork in one end. Then pour about a liter of Coke in the pipe. After that pour in a whole pack of Mentos candy. It may not clean it out as good as the above methods, but it will be pretty cool!
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jc7622 wrote:Try this method. Put a cork in one end. Then pour about a liter of Coke in the pipe. After that pour in a whole pack of Mentos candy. It may not clean it out as good as the above methods, but it will be pretty cool!
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Thanks! Great advices here...

First I will try the M.Black ''old trick'' . I just bought DRANO at Home-Depot. I will give it a try tomorrow, for sure.

Then if I am still alive I will tell you the results.

If the method above do not work well for me, I will try the gaz filled 3 steps method.

1-fill the pipe with gas.
2-Let it soak for a few days
3-heat with a acetylene torch to remove all the carbon.

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don't forget to remove that gas before you go crazy with that blow torch :mrgreen:
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I've only met up with KDXquebec once but I know him well enough to be sure that he was joking :lol:
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I've heard that gasket remover does a good job at cleaning things. I can attest that fire will clean a pipe. I have 2 that went through a bad fire. The pipes survived. The chrome finish suffered a little, but so what?
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The ''old trick'' worked fine today. I did it twice, as suggested.
The first 3-4 inches of the head pipe is now a carbon-free zone. I can not see deeper but , my guess, carbon is still there. Anyway I think the most important part of the pipe decarbonized.

What a mess! Spoo everywhere in the shop :shock:
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kdxquebec wrote:The ''old trick'' worked fine today. I did it twice, as suggested.
The first 3-4 inches of the head pipe is now a carbon-free zone. I can not see deeper but , my guess, carbon is still there. Anyway I think the most important part of the pipe decarbonized.

What a mess! Spoo everywhere in the shop :shock:
My guess would be, 'Not.'

If the fired on carbon in the headpipe is gone..it's gone farther down the pipe, too.

That was crystallized type cleaner I presume?

The 'way things are' these days, I'm surprised that's even available! Like...I don't think oxalic acid is available anymore. Used to be good for flushing your radiator.

I guess you could fill your pipe full'a rhubarb.......... :wink:

Hey! You can get a pound of it for $10 on the web. Hazardous shipping prolly cost you twice that........ **edit** Nope..only $10 more.

Nice to not see Wibby on your 'puter screen. That was scary.... :shock:

BTW...does the can of Drano you used list the % or strength of the lye in the can? I bought some laboratory grade lye awhile back to clean my pipe, but didn't have as good a luck with it as you did.

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kdxquebec wrote:The ''old trick'' worked fine today. I did it twice, as suggested.
The first 3-4 inches of the head pipe is now a carbon-free zone.
I have to say,before the drano was in the pipe, I scratched the carbon in this area with a flat screwdriver. Drano finished the job. Thats why I think carbon is still in the pipe.

The pipe juice was no funny to look and smell.

I used liquid drano,not the crystal one. Maybe crystal drano should work better?

I did not noticed the % of strenght. But it was for domestical home use.The bottle is in the garbage can!
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Well???...and the garbage can is that far away?

Somebody stole it while you weren't looking?

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I don't know that any statement of strength is on the container. It may simply state:
Dire Warning wrote:Contains lye. NEVER use as a carbon remover!!!'
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Warmed toluene should work as well. 'Course it sounds like Drano would be easier.

A BTW - ox acid should be available, do a web search. I know it's used as a catalyst to make phenolic resin and one of the few that's not particularly harmful.
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canyncarvr wrote:Well???...and the garbage can is that far away?

Somebody stole it while you weren't looking?

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I don't know that any statement of strength is on the container. It may simply state:
Dire Warning wrote:Contains lye. NEVER use as a carbon remover!!!'
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Hmm. The bottle I used today is in the garbage can where I work. Tomorrow the garbage can will be empty.

Never use as a carbon remover? Really? I did not read the label. :wink:
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The carbon-free Zone.

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Post by JoKDX220r »

This post is a little old but that's the info I needed, I'll try the "Drano, my pipe is full of carbon.

Anyone else try this since 2008 ?
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