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Manometer idea for carb sync's
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How much did this setup cost you?you can make your own synchroniser using 4 0-30 vacuum gauges, 4 elbows and 4 flow control type dampners. like this one i made below. its crude but it works great..steve
this setups about 20 yrs old but after checking on mcmaster car i think anyone could build this for about 100 bucks today. this is all heavy duty quality industrial stuff and will last a lifetime....steve
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There needs to be a pinhole size restriction as close to the manifold port as possible. This is to isolate the test apparatus from affecting the vacuum inside the manifold. It should be at the very beginning of the tubing. As I mentioned earlier, it needs to be adjustable in order to make all four test channels the same. On store bought ones, you just wiggle a needle in the orifice.
If the restrictor (which also performs dampening), is placed at the gauge-end of the tubing, it doesn't shield the manifold from the effects of the tubing capacitance. The reading will be off because the apparatus is affecting the actual vacuum inside the manifold.
Intuitively, it would seem that if everything was identical, none of these concerns would make a difference. However, in practice, making all four channels identical are impossible. The tubing, alone, will vary greatly in diameter and wall ridgidity. That's enough to be off by up to 2 inches of mercury.
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When I rebuilt and synced the carbs last year I used a homemade device below.
I took the readings from each carb and averaged them, then I set each carb to the average. It seemed to run well and idle smooth.
Last night I built the 1.55 sync tool.
I checked the carbs, which showed them off a bit. I adjusted 1-4 and 2-3, then checked 1-3 and 1-4 and made some minor adjustments to get them even. The result is a smoother idle and it seems to pick up and run better. I'm happy!
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Never mind. Filled lines with about three feet of fluid. Worked great.
Motor purrrrrrs now. I was amazed how far they were off. The first few times per carb, I had to immediately shut the engine off before it sucked it up. Carbs 1&2 were the worst off.
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Say use 7/16" ID tube on the actual device, connected, via reducers, to say 1/4" ID for the hook-up to the manifold spigots.
Logic suggests the fluid might bounce less in a larger tube?
Any thoughts?
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Are we better off using a larger or a smaller ID tube when building the "sync-a-matic 2000".
Say use 7/16" ID tube on the actual device, connected, via reducers, to say 1/4" ID for the hook-up to the manifold spigots.
Logic suggests the fluid might bounce less in a larger tube?
Any thoughts?
I guess that would work. Maybe a heavier fluid would do the same thing. What "weight" is tranny fluid? Maybe straight 30w would dampen it. I used red tranny fluid as it was easy to see.
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My bike was balanced using the home made manometer. I was originally going to use the dual-tubing setup but realized that it would be too fiddly & cumbersome trying to do 2 carbs at a time, so I made the 4 carb gizmo
1/4" clear tubing, clamps & caps; some larger sized clamps; 1/4" black watering system fittings w barbed ends (2-90s & 2-Tees); 1x4 board, metal yardstick (I couldn't locate a meterstick); 2-cycle oil.
JMK.
Couldn't you just leave off the tee connection at the bottom and have all four tubes sitting in a large container of oil or something? Then they wouldn't be fighting one another at all.
It would also make it open to the atmosphere so you shouldn't need to worry about calibrating it first.
Whachall think?
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JMKZHI wrote:
My bike was balanced using the home made manometer. I was originally going to use the dual-tubing setup but realized that it would be too fiddly & cumbersome trying to do 2 carbs at a time, so I made the 4 carb gizmo
1/4" clear tubing, clamps & caps; some larger sized clamps; 1/4" black watering system fittings w barbed ends (2-90s & 2-Tees); 1x4 board, metal yardstick (I couldn't locate a meterstick); 2-cycle oil.
JMK.
Couldn't you just leave off the tee connection at the bottom and have all four tubes sitting in a large container of oil or something? Then they wouldn't be fighting one another at all.
It would also make it open to the atmosphere so you shouldn't need to worry about calibrating it first.
Whachall think?
The problem with that is that the manometer would have to be super tall.
A 2-foot mercury manometer would have to be replaced by a 20-foot water manometer. Oil would have to be even taller.
Post edited by: loudhvx, at: 2008/01/20 22:23
1981 KZ550 D1 gpz.
Kz550 valve train warning.
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