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SOHC.co.uk Forums => Recommended Sources for Parts and Services => Topic started by: Fenderfreak on December 06, 2018, 08:23:39 PM
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Anyone recommend a reasonable reliable set of carb synch gauges?
Cheers
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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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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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Bought a new set of sealey vacuum gauges this year..giod price and work great
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+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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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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Thanks Gents was considering the Sealey set 👍
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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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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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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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£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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£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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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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Davida are excellent gauges Ash, no problems at all and very well made 👍
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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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Out of interest I just googled vacuum guages. Demon Teeks actually sell a set branded "bike it" at £5.99!! Although one can only assume they are garbage, there are loads on ebay that look very similar (and likely similar garbage) at much more money. Out of interset anyone used these?
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;) yes Davida are good if not old by todays standards i had a set for over thirty years until one guage went faulty i then bought a set from m and p's a few years ago very good value for money and good guages though not as well made as davida but will do the job no problem
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Thanks for all the feedback. Ended up getting a set of Morgan Carbtune 👍
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Out of interest I just googled vacuum guages. Demon Teeks actually sell a set branded "bike it" at £5.99!! Although one can only assume they are garbage, there are loads on ebay that look very similar (and likely similar garbage) at much more money. Out of interset anyone used these?
That is just for a set of connectors , a 4 gauge set is 45 quid.
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I see said the blind man to is deaf friend.... ::)