I feel like an idiot! ...plugged pipe!

[MPS]

So I get my son's sled all done....I clean up the cylinder and head...then slap in the new piston. Then I clean the carbs and then I find the fuel pump is bad....so I rebuild that. Then it will start and sounds all sluggish and dies. I am baffled! So my buddy comes over and asks if it has sat outside and I said yes. Then I realize right then I had the pipe out sitting on my back sidewalk for a long time ...always telling myself to pick it up because mice will get in it....sure enough....plugged up with mice nests Im sure. We pulled that pipe off and it fired up great! Son of a ____!!!! UUGH!!!!

So anyone have any solutions to get a pipe unplugged? I thought about cutting it open...cleaning it out and then welding it. Or of course I could just buy a new one.

 

[Blk88GT]

Compressed air? Gas and a match? I wouldn't cut it open!

 

[skibreeze]

Drain snake.

 

[MPS]

I thought of the compressed air.....gas and a match...that is a good idea.

 

[MPS]

Drain snake.

nice, good one too!

 

[Blk88GT]

Good call, even a fishtape or one of those bendable claw things would work.

Fire is more fun though

 

[Blu Du]

i washed mine out with a garden hose. it worked good took 10 minutes

 

[MPS]

Ya I am going with lots of fire, then compressed air (I would try the garden hose, but it is pretty cold here). I'm gonna get a lot of gas....I think I will have to borrow Rambo's bow so I can shoot it from a distance so I won't become engulfed! hehe

Garden hose is a good idea too....I'm sure it is just a bunch of dead weeds, garbage, and straw packed in by mice.

 

[m_beeson]

Be sure and video tape it for us.

 

[joshkoltes]

sandblast

its like multitasking, de mousing and cleaning carbon out. maby burn kerosene instead of gas to clean a little more.

 

[Scott]

(in beavis voice) FIRE!! FIRE!! FIRE!!!!

 

[adrenaline junkey]

Ya I am going with lots of fire, then compressed air (I would try the garden hose, but it is pretty cold here). I'm gonna get a lot of gas....I think I will have to borrow Rambo's bow so I can shoot it from a distance so I won't become engulfed! hehe

Garden hose is a good idea too....I'm sure it is just a bunch of dead weeds, garbage, and straw packed in by mice.

lol be careful if there is corn in there it will pop and never come out

 

[MPS]

hehehe FIRE FIRE FIRE!!! I need to be holding a chainsaw to go with that and hopped up on capichinos. Ok I will have to video my day of Beavis. ....at least take pics

....good idea on the kersosene Josh.

 

[MPS]

lol be careful if there is corn in there it will pop and never come out

....haha, ah that just gives me another excuse to make lots of fire....have to burn the corn. Maybe the mice put corn in there....the little b@stards gotta eat.

 

[powdersphinx]

yup kerosene or diesel either will work really well.

 

[Ex-Member]

I'd try compressed air... water might rust it prematurely...

fire does sound fun though

I just fire mine up every week or so during the summer, hotbox the garage...

 

[MPS]

I'd try compressed air... water might rust it prematurely...

fire does sound fun though

I just fire mine up every week or so during the summer, hotbox the garage...

Nice I always knew you were a Cheetoh munching, mary jane smoking SOB! hehehehe

 

[Scott]

I wouldn't be suprised if your plugged exhaust had something to do with a certain Utard who invites "friends" to his secret cabin. LMFAO.

 

[Dunatic]

I wouldn't be suprised if your plugged exhaust had something to do with a certain Utard who invites "friends" to his secret cabin. LMFAO.

SunShine they are talking about you again!!! ROTFLMAO!!! he can shred the gravel though...

 

[Idaho Slim]

nice, good one too!

Yer not to good with this snowmobile thingy are ya Slut??


Take it down to a carwash and blow it out with a high preesure wand, then light it off with kerosene or deisel,

Then go down to RMS and get the pipe plugs that go in the can outlet, I got several of them for this vey reason, I even plug them during summer storage inside my enclosed trailer. And if working on them in my shop, each night.

I see so many sleds out in the fields on trailers and think, NIce Mouse House !