Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone in the northern NJ area can help me out here. I need to use a carb sync tool and I really do not want to spend a lot of money for something that I am going to use once. I used a home made one, and it worked out well, but I need something more reliable. I was wondering if anyone had one that they can come help me out or even borrow it. If you let me borrow it, I will leave a deposit with you or whatever, Im sure we can work something out.

Please let me know if there is anyone that can help me out, this is the only thing that prevents me from riding.

TIA

 

As a matter of fact these home made ones are good (and cheap), heres one easy build, 1 x plank, 4 x 1 meters or longer plastic hose, 2 x T-cross connectors to connect them att the bottom, and some coloured water.

Connect them all and tune your carbs, until the difference in the hoses are max 1 decimeter (4 inch). In this case less is better

You could connect 3 taps/valves at the bottom, one in each U-formed side hose and one between the two t-cross connectors. In that way you can have them closed while starting engine and slowly open them so it won't suck any water in the carbs, but they will have to be very out of sync to do that so shouldn't be any problem.

Heres one example.

 

I tried that, it worked for the most part, but I couldnt get it where I needed it.

 

just buy the motion pro carb tuner. its like 100 bucks. and worth it. you'll definitely use it more than once

 

I recently sync'd my carbs. This was my diy method, and it worked well. All I used was one vacuum gauge and a length of vacuum tube. While I had the carbs off, I attached a piece of vacuum tubing to each of the ports on the engine, and plugged the other end (which was hanging out to the side of the bike, nice and easy to reach). Started it up, hooked the vacuum gauge up to one tube at a time, and just adjusted them all to be the same. Smoothed things out a lot. Also, pinching the tube so there is only a small orifice for air to travel through works well as a damper to smooth out the gauge reading. I just left the extension lines on the bike so I can do it again easily.

 

This is the one I would buy, considering you'll use it about every few thousand miles. I used a motion pro last, not worth it, it's the same thing

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Carb-...motiveQ5fTools

 

I am going to try what bobmilkman did, if it doesnt help me out then I will go for the one on ebay.

Thanks for the help guys!