Carb stix fluid

Have a old carb stix sync tool that came loose and spilt most of the mercury and am wondering if I can used something like trans fluid or something else for the fluid and slap it back together.

I do have a bottle of mercury that i got from a scrapper, I own 2 sets of old motion pro mercury gauges and needed to replenish them. I could sell you enough to refill yours, pm me if interested . It isn't as clean as i would prefer, has some carbon looking stuff floating in it. Seems to work fine in my gauges though.

Hey Wargoth appreciate the offer but I desided to break down and buy a new Motion pro tool. If I play around with the old one and find something that works will post.

The new Motion Pro tool is junk and useless. I recommend cancelling your order if you still have time. If not, you just threw $100 down the drain. It doesn't work, but if you are lucky enough it does which is 1 in 100, it won't work a month down the road because all the fluid evaporates whithin a few weeks.

+ 1 on the blue fluid motion pro being junk. I also had the mercury stix.....Now I have a morgan carb tune pro........much better ,I paid around $110 u.s. delivered

I don't believe I didn't re search this a little better before buying. Thinking I will beg the ebay retailer to take it back. He has over 500 sold so I thought it must work pretty decent. Thanks guys.

i like mine works great

I've bought some bad 'tools' over the years, but my gosh, this thing takes the cake as the worst of all time. Just as a quick recap for anyone interested in the tool. I too had the old mercury carb stix for 30 years, they were great, but I finally lost the mercury and since mercury is more dangerous than dynomite, no chance of repair.
I buy this new tool, right away I see these restrictors that restrict the flow down to like 1 hair diameter. Right away I say "REALLY". Anyone with any idea of common sense would think the same. So we are going to suck vacuum through a 1/1000" opening and it wll not clog? Right. So I try the tool for the first time. You hook all 4 lines together to a common vacuum source and be sure all 4 read the same. Of course as expected 2 or 3 were clogged at the get go, so I remove the restrictors and try to blow compressed air through them, which is a real fun time blowing air through a 1/1000" opening. i finally get all 4 working for the most part, had to adjust a couple to almost the limit to equal the other 2. Now hook to the engine, i get all 4 lines with air bubbles, and not just little ones, like 2/3 the entire guage reading is bubbles. Read the instructions and sure enough this little problem is covered, just shake the tool to settle the bubbles. I shake it and the bubbles go nowhere, all I do is drop all the little accessories included in the Chinese little storage area to the dirt, so I get the idea to try to blow the fluid back down in the main cavity, I blow into all 4 tubes and I forget what exactly happened, but whatever it was was not good, I lost the fluid. I bitch to motion pro and they say how mercury is outlawed so this is what we get, so they send me a new tool. Right on the tool it says it must be treated like a 1 yr old baby, no hot storage, no cold, must be kept at 76.5 degrees, whatever, so I keep it in the house. I kept the old mercury stix out in 25 below zero for 30 yrs, oh well, must take care of this chinese tool. I keep in indoors in 76.5 degree temps. Finally go to use it for the first time and find all the fluid has evaporated. Yes, ALL, not just a portion, all of it. Well in the trash and get the Morgan Carbtune and all is roses now.
My review, others may like the tool. I can't imagine.

Where did you live, the north pole? 25 below for 30 years? :woohoo: :lol:

RonKZ650 wrote: ...mercury is more dangerous than dynomite....

We've sure come a long way from childhood's rubbing mercury on nickels and dimes to shine them up -- at least temporarily, before they turned black. :woohoo:

Good Fortune!

Here is why you cannot transport mercury by aircraft.



Mercury reacts with aluminum once it gets through the thin Aluminum-oxide layer. It would eventually eat a hole through the plane.

(The video is two hour time-lapsed, with gallium used to get through the oxide.)

Not good for aluminum motors either, if left to sit on the aluminum for a long time.

That is crazy talk Lou LOL. I have over 20 years on aircraft and have an a&p cert. Check again, lots of aircraft transport and store mercury all the time. It is in many instruments and gauges, particularly in older stuff. All florescent lights have mercury in them, and plenty of commercial jets have lots of those too. This is the reason most aircraft manufacturers have large sections in the repair manual devoted to mercury clean up. Like saying can't fly a battery because it has acid in it, lol.