I'm guessing here that if you only use one gauge, you would have to keep going back and forth numerous times before you get them right. Probably more of a pain in the *** but if you have the time I think it's doable. Now that I think of it, it sounds just like trying to corner balance a car using one scale instead offour.

 

What corner balance?
Thats' right Imo000, its doable buy heaps of time, you could make up a switch box so you could switch the guage to different carbs.
or if you has a set of carbs that were way out, you could use the single guage to get them closer.

It's like, I brough2 cheap drills, an XU1 Corded an a XU1 Cordless.
The $15 corded is great, Not a quality product, but does the job, had it for years, had it smoke a couple of times, but good value for money.
The $20 cordless was a piece of crap, now replaced with a $400 Hitachi.

Most tools, you need to spend a bit more on, I'm learning.

 

I had mine balanced by a mechanic a few weeks ago and watched him do it. It's pretty straightforward.

I just ordered a Morgan Carbsinc (the pound is a good exchange rate right now!) as I need to do some more fine tuning of the mixture and will need to re-sinc them. I'll also be using it on my wifey-pooh's KZ550 so I'll be getting my money's worth out of them.

 

Corner balancing a car is: To adjust the ride height at each wheel to achieve a desired weight balance between the front./ back and left/right tires “corners�. You need to have an adjustable suspension (mostly adjustable coilovers) to be able to do this and preferably 4 scales (one under each tire) to do this.

 

You guys are awesome!!! I really appreciate the help. I printed out the write ups, which are excellent by the way. Not going to be able to report to you all how it went for a few weeks though.

I still have the brake problem that I am going to try and tackle this weekend. Going to pick up a Mighty Vac tomorrow and bleed brakesto see if it will fix my having to pump the rear brakes to get a pedal, and why the front brakes arenot engaging the rear.

Whats neat about all this is that even though I have a few problems going on with my bike (which is natural at 15 years old with 50k miles) its still very driveable and i ride it to work every day!!

 

Griffin, It is that easy, it's almost like playing a computer game, all you are doing is just tweaking the adjustments. Bigger tweaks at first then Smaller tweaks at the end

 

So I am having some difficulties with syncing my carbs even after reading all of this. I have pulled the carbs completely off my bike to clean them. I am getting ready to put them back on. But I cannot figure out how to hook up the sync to the carb. Could someone please help me out? I bought a 93 cbr1000f in peices and It's almost all back together. I would really appreciate some detailed pictures showing me where exactly to hook my sync gauges to.

Many Thanks!

 

example of number 2 port should have a cap on it - same for 1 3 4

3&4

 

I picked up a Motion Pro Carb Stick for about $80.00 on Ebay. I prefer the tube style over the gauge setup.

I sinc my carbs prolly every 2 months or so. I can tell when the are getting a bit off because there will be a slight surging at low speeds.

Takes me about 30 minutes to do it.

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