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Originally Posted by joshmac
You balanced your carbs on a pointy?
I thought they were fuel injected..  |
Throttle bodies need balancing too.
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Sookie,
I have mentioned this before. My experience with mechanical gauges indicates that they are best stored permanently... in the local landfill.
Make yourself a water manometer. They are far more accurate for balancing carbs than any gauge. No calibration required. The aim is columns at the same height, although a couple of inches won't make a bit of difference and you'll see that (probably more) anyway because carbs generally don't balance equally at all rpms. There are plenty of plans for home made manometers on the net.
Here is one:
http://www.obairlann.net/reaper/moto...manometer.html
The only thing that I do that is substantially different is to run the hose to each cylinder (as indicated on the linked page) back down to the base and add a bottle into each line that is just sufficient in volume to hold all of the water in the system - it is not a lot, less than 100ml. I also use 10mm ID tubing for the main part of the gauge (easy to see and easy to fill - the small stuff is very hard to fill) and 4mm ID (I think - use what fits) for the hoses from the bottles to the carbs.
Also, a couple of fuel filters make fine dampers for gauges.
Cheers