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Offline Fenderfreak

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Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« on: December 06, 2018, 08:23:39 PM »
Anyone recommend a reasonable reliable set of carb synch gauges?

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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2018, 08:54:14 PM »
Hi , I've got Morgan carbtune not cheap at about £60 - £70 but easy to use well built and work well even for a beginner like me .

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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2018, 09:24:09 PM »
Morgan carb tune every day of the week, had mine over twenty years, it cost me about about £55 so a new one is a good price.

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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2018, 09:40:54 PM »
Bought a new set of sealey vacuum gauges this year..giod price and work great

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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2018, 10:32:55 PM »
+1 on the Sealey ones, nearest to genuine Honda i ever seen, not cheap at full price but lots of deals on fleabay. Come with lots of adaptors and quality hose.
Stay away from the ones on the blue steel angle bracket they are not accurate and difficult to damp the movement.

On ebay demontweeksdirect at £112.48  i think inc del.
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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2018, 10:48:30 PM »
A set of NOS Honda ones sold on ebay Germany for over a grand last month. Still have my old set  ;)

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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2018, 12:31:23 AM »
Thanks Gents was considering the Sealey set 👍
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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2018, 06:23:37 AM »
I bought a cheap set from M&P. Before use I checked the calibration and they turned out to be spot on.

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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2018, 09:42:41 AM »
I use the modern slider type Morgan carb tune set, and I still have my 1980's Morgan carb tune mercury column set along with perished hoses
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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2018, 09:44:25 AM »
I bought a 4-set of Davida ones at a car boot sale for £20 last year (knocked the bloke down quite a bit to get them for that)...not used them yet .. are they any good?
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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2018, 10:11:03 AM »
£20 quid Ash, you must have mugged him  :o!
I bought a s/h set of Davida gauges last year on ebay for £50, they work fine, very smooth and easy to use.
I used to have a set of Morgans, the ones with the metal rods instead of mercury.  The rods would 'stick' in the tubes and I'd have to tap them to obtain a correct reading whenever I made an adjustment.
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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2018, 10:25:14 AM »
£20 quid Ash, you must have mugged him  :o!
I bought a s/h set of Davida gauges last year on ebay for £50, they work fine, very smooth and easy to use.
I used to have a set of Morgans, the ones with the metal rods instead of mercury.  The rods would 'stick' in the tubes and I'd have to tap them to obtain a correct reading whenever I made an adjustment.

Funnily enough I went to Newark autojumble the same month and there was a set there too ...  identical.. I picked them up just to look and the woman said £30 but when I walked away she said 25 but obviously I already had my car-boot set. You didn't say if they are any good or not though?
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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2018, 10:32:11 AM »
I use Davida's. they were bought new some 20 years ago, for I think just under £100 and have been in use ever since.

No complaints at all, well made and do a good enough job for my purposes.

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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2018, 11:20:07 AM »
Davida are excellent gauges Ash, no problems at all and very well made 👍
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Re: Carb Balancing Vacuum gauges
« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2018, 11:29:48 AM »
I bought a cheap set from M&P. Before use I checked the calibration and they turned out to be spot on.

 I have a set of these,cheap and easy to use.

 and  less than £40
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