{"id":50648,"date":"2025-11-20T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50648"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:24:03","slug":"mechanics-carb-cleaner-vs-mass-air-flow-sensor-cleaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-carb-cleaner-vs-mass-air-flow-sensor-cleaner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanics: carb cleaner vs mass air flow sensor cleaner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about mechanics: the tutor mentions a discovery that surprised him.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs I mention in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-lawnmower-engine-surging-part-2\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post,<\/a> I am servicing an 11-year-old lawn mower which has been surging. I realize I might need to clean its carburetor &#8211; at least superficially.<\/p>\n<p>\nI thought I could use carb cleaner, but perhaps that&#8217;s not the best choice: as I understand, the lawn mower has a plastic carburetor, while carb cleaner, it seems, is meant for metal ones. I&#8217;ve learned that, perhaps, I should try mass air flow sensor cleaner instead, which is apparently safe on plastic.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fqF6OqfC0kc\">YouTube: Grassroots Motorsports<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about mechanics: the tutor mentions a discovery that surprised him. The following is according to my understanding. As I mention in yesterday&#8217;s post, I am servicing an 11-year-old lawn mower which has been surging. I realize I might need &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-carb-cleaner-vs-mass-air-flow-sensor-cleaner\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mechanics: carb cleaner vs mass air flow sensor cleaner<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50651,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50648\/revisions\/50651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}