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Need assistance from RobB about
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:08 pm
by Black Box
Carburettor Balancing. I want to buy my own gauges and make my up my own set. But I am not sure what type of gauges and what reading they should give me, is it measured in KPA?... Is is possible to post a picture of the gauges for me please.
BTW. Exelent post under the workshop section about this. Much appreciated. You tha man!
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:00 pm
by RedexRobB
cheers mate
It doesnt matter what pressure they are reading just that they are all the same
Pictures of the guages are in the write up, not very big i suppose.
These ones will do the job, same as mine. Have a shop round i got mine for 30 quid from ebay but i guess the postage is free on those ones in the link. Dont go for the mercury gauges, as its possible to suck the mercury out, they still do the same job as the dial gauges just not as safe.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/carb-balancers-va ... dZViewItem
Any more questions mate ask away
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:19 pm
by masterofinsanity
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:24 am
by RedexRobB
those are the ones that use mercury in them.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:19 am
by Black Box
Thanks mate. I saw these gauges at my local spares shotp. Will they work?
http://drivewerks.com/catalog/images/au ... M-4871.jpg
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:40 am
by RedexRobB
yeah long as they are vacuum gauges and you have 4 of them im sure they will do the job.
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:57 pm
by Black Box
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwsssomeeeeeee.
Power gains from balancing the carbs is unbelieveable. Before the bike was a bit sluggish at low rpms but now its pulling like it's suppose to. The carbs was way off but now I can easily put her on the back wheel and keep her there. Before that was hard to do.
Rob thanks agian. I always thought you needed a rocked science degree to do this but it was actually pretty easy following your instructions, only took me 30min to do...
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:07 pm
by RedexRobB
excellent! i glad you went by the instructions - how did you find them? If you got any feedback let me know and ill amend them
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:52 am
by Black Box
Rob the instructions was spot on. The only problem I had was after starting the bike and the gauges was flicking like crazy. I had to re read the instructions and only then saw that I needed taps to control the airflow. Other wise no problems.
Thanks again on an excellent write-up And thanks to Baz for this excellent website.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:00 pm
by MonkeyBusiness
Hey Rob, where can I get hold of the instructions? I would like to put this on my list of things to do to the new bike.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:04 pm
by Black Box
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:04 pm
by masterofinsanity
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:06 pm
by MonkeyBusiness
Hey Black Box, I see you are in SA too? What province?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:30 pm
by Black Box
Just another update...Sorry to bring a old post to life again....
Before carb balancing my fuel consumption was 165 per tank then I had to go to reserve now after the carb balancing my fuel consumption is 200km per tank and I suppose I can go a little bit further before going over to reserve.
MonkeyBusiness I'm from Gauteng on the west rand...
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:00 pm
by deviant
