If you’re the type of person who derives a particular kind of satisfaction from seeing sad, past-it bits of machinery cleaned up and brought back to life, then chances are excellent that you’ll appreciate this Honda C90 Cub carburetor restoration timelapse video. It’s short (just over two minutes long, in fact), it’s sweet, and shows you the broad strokes of remedying years of wear, tear, and gunk with a little bit of TLC and a whole lot of cleaning.
At the start, we don’t know how old this little Keihin unit is, nor what kind of life the bike it’s normally attached to has been living. However, it’s plain to see that it’s a bit the worse for wear. It’s totally filthy on the outside, and probably also on the inside, as well. The only way to clean everything up is naturally to take it all apart and get a clearer view of the situation at hand. With the C90’s enduring popularity, rebuild kits for this carb are readily available, so that’s at least one less headache to worry about if that's the unit you’re handling.
