Author Topic: Not so poor man's carb sync tool. (Read 4715 times)

vadim · « **on:** September 19, 2005, 02:53:08 PM »

OK, there was a great poor man's carb sync tool post. Do any of you guys use commercial products? If so, which/how much? How would you rate them?

ray nielsen · « **Reply #1 on:** September 19, 2005, 03:29:32 PM »

I use a Morgan Carb Tune from England. It consists of machined steel rods in machined plastic tubes. The cost was about $100 including S & H and delivery took about a week.

No Mercury to spill, quite accurate and easily transportable, even in the top box on my Bandit. It MUST be kept vertical, lest the rods stick in the tubes, but that's easy to determine -- they quit jiggling with the varuum pulsations. If you see that it's not vertical!

Do a search for Carb Tune and I think you'll find the site.

turbo-bob · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2005, 09:18:01 AM »

Quote from: "vadim"

OK, there was a great poor man's carb sync tool post. Do any of you guys use commercial products? If so, which/how much? How would you rate them?

I just use the mecury stix.......their under $50.00
accurate and easy.............

vadim · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2005, 10:55:06 AM »

I don't like the idea of having to deal with mercury...

interfuse · « **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2005, 12:54:59 PM »

Quote from: "ray nielsen"

I use a Morgan Carb Tune from England. It consists of machined steel rods in machined plastic tubes. The cost was about $100 including S & H and delivery took about a week.

I wish I bought the Morgan Carb tune. But, I went with the mercury sticks because I waited until my carbs NEEDED to be balanced and all the local shop had was the Motion Pro mercury set.

todius · « **Reply #5 on:** September 28, 2005, 12:17:34 AM »

I've got the carb synch tool from JCWhitney (4 dial guages) and they've worked great for me. Paid $40 about 3 years ago.

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Mine came mounted on a metal bracket, they weren't loose like in the photo.

Denverbandit99 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 28, 2005, 12:22:52 AM »

how hard is it to synch carbs with a synch kit? how much time?

todius · « **Reply #7 on:** September 28, 2005, 12:42:28 AM »

It's pretty easy actually. If you are comfortable removing the gas tank yourself, you can synch the carbs yourself. Takes me about 20-30 mins to sych my carbs 5-10minutes of that is warming the bike up.

The hardest part is delivering fuel to the carburetors with the tank off. They sell external fuel tanks kinda like an IV bag at a hospital) that you can hang somewhere to keep the carbs filled. I usually just remove the tank to adjust the left screw, hook the tank back up to fill the bowls. Remove tank and synch the right screw. Reattach tank, fill bowls, remove tank, synch middle screw. Reattach tank and drive away on "new" bike.