Carb Stand from old carb holders.

Thats pretty cool Mark, now I see what you wanted some help with :evil: One suggestion i might make is to make the plate the carbs bolt to slide into the side stands. That way you can flip the carbs upside down to work on the bowl side

porchev914 wrote: Thats pretty cool Mark, now I see what you wanted some help with :evil: One suggestion i might make is to make the plate the carbs bolt to slide into the side stands. That way you can flip the carbs upside down to work on the bowl side

Yes, exactly! Though, I went for sturdiness instead of flipping - I was trying to scheme up a way to do that, but I couldn't without either 4 bolts (which take as much time to undo as 4 carb holders) or a seriously floppy workstand. I don't like floppy workstands. :silly:

mtbspeedfreak wrote:

porchev914 wrote: Thats pretty cool Mark, now I see what you wanted some help with :evil: One suggestion i might make is to make the plate the carbs bolt to slide into the side stands. That way you can flip the carbs upside down to work on the bowl side

Yes, exactly! Though, I went for sturdiness instead of flipping - I was trying to scheme up a way to do that, but I couldn't without either 4 bolts (which take as much time to undo as 4 carb holders) or a seriously floppy workstand. I don't like floppy workstands. :silly:

Post up the dimensions for that stand. I have an idea Mark......

I got a lot of really good ideas on here but that's freekin' killer.

Low budget (2 scraps of wood, and a few drywall screws) nowhere NEAR as elegant & sexy as some of the others here, but necessity is a mother!

Can't argue with what works! It's like folk art, it may not be pretty, but I like it!

dammit just saw this. I threw away the old parts when I replaced them and had to do this ...



then realized I can't get to the drain screws! haha

So I have been thinking about this for a while, but was thinking about utilizing some PVC and a vacuum to help dynamically set the sync prior to final sync on the bike.

Nice creative genius out there building these stands. Nice work guys!

Cory

Curious, would a shop vac work to sync them on the bench? It wouldn't be the hard to make a manifold to connect to shop vac. Experimentation will have to wait for summer or some rainy winter days.

I'm going to mount mine on a board and mount them on the wall. Great idea.
Steve

kaw-a-holic wrote: Curious, would a shop vac work to sync them on the bench? It wouldn't be the hard to make a manifold to connect to shop vac. Experimentation will have to wait for summer or some rainy winter days.

You could sync them in a rough way that way. About the same as simply static sync'ing them like the manual calls for with a feeler gauge. They would still need some tweaking once on the engine as the vacuum will be unique to each cylinder thus to each carb.

Cory

But it is a good way to set the float bowl fuel levels off the bike.
Just put one screw in each bowl and use the clear tube method for best results
Then you can just pop the bowls off to mess with the float tabs.