labor hours needed to clean carbs/adjust valves?

[cookiedough]

Thanks again all, but the blued pipes are probably due to lean condition and carbs need to be synced, valves adjusted, etc. of which if shown once or twice, I'm sure I could do it myself.  I just don't feel comfortable working on an 8 grand machine and messing something up.  Before I take her in if need be, I will try all suggestions and also use blue-away on the chrome exhaust headers and see if I can get 80% or so of the blueing off and use some chrome polish on the pipes to see if I can live with that for now? The  6 headers are certainly very off colored and not even close to being chrome color anymore.  They kinda look cool in their own little way being a golden color with blue spots in them.

[mrflamewerks]

Anyone ever heard good/bad things about Lucas upper cylinder concentrate as well also made to clean fuel injectors?  I

I've used the Lucas product and found it works as well as Seafoam or Techron. As to your original question, six hours labor sounds pretty reasonable for pulling, disassembling, cleaning, reassembling and reinstalling a set of carbs on a Valk. I'm with the rest of the group tho'. I'd run one of the quality fuel treatments first to see if that corrects the problem.

[Mulepick]

My oilhead beemer didn't have dual walls so the pipes blued no matter what.  I tried everything and nothing works well.  Finally got them hi temp powder coated which solved it.  My point is that you've really got work ahead to de-blue double wall pipes.

I agree that you should troubleshoot vac lines and use gas treatment first.  Valves are probably not far out of whack and sync is probably OK if no one has messed with it.  My point is that neither of these would cause the big problems you're having like bad vac lines would.

Bob