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Phoenix

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Gents.... can a few of you point me in the right direction where I can obtain a carburetor balancer and maybe a colour tune kit? What do you use for your own cars?

It is not so easy nowadays to find an 'old time' mechanic who is comfortable with tuning carb cars and frankly this is a skill I would like to learn once more since it has been some 20+ years since I last worked on a car with carbs :?

Many thanks :)
 
Personally I use balancers from Franklin, however Gunson do a balancer albeit a little tacky, I think i'm correct in saying that they are available from Halfrauds. You got the old hose routine, not at all accurate in my view although alot of amateur's use this method. Get your ignition completely set before you move on to the carbs.
 
lb restoration services , i got a colourtune and gunson carbbalancer at the restoration show from them at stoneleigh last year, they do look cheap and nasty but they work , also you will find these people do lots of stuff in the restoration line i got some nice temporary clips for welding off them,www.b-restoration@Btconnect.com , 01208269746 , good luck rich
 
I've got one of these,

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I've never actually used it as I don't have the appropriate throat adaptors to fit the rover, but it looks nice anyway :LOL:

I also have a Gunsons carbalancer, and colourtune, and have used them in the past quite succesfully.
 
Phoenix said:
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You're right Harvey, they do actually do SU specific version and various adaptors including angles etc..

http://www.dellorto.co.uk/merchandise/products.asp?CategoryID=8&PartsectionID=17
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Rick.... could you possibly advise as to what items I would require if I bought from this website?
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Can anyone help with my last question? I like the idea of buying a better quality kit so that I can balance the carbs so help would be appreciated.... Thanks :)
 
it would be interesting to know how good the human ear can get the balance just with a oeice of tubing listening to the hiss ,rich
 
I've refrained from replying here because I'm a fan of the bit of heater hose and a careful ear method. But others assure me they can't do this and need a widget like the one shown.

Chris
 
Hi,

I can’t do the hissing pipe thing but do admire those that can, maybe it’s the same reason why I can’t sing or play a musical instrument :)

I think the simple Gunson tool is fine and up to the job, others are more durable and/or quicker(simpler) to use but given that this is a task your going to do very infrequently I’d say leave the fancy ones for the professionals and go the cheap root. If you’ve money burning a hole in your pocket there are other things to buy rather than expensive balancers.

Tim
 
You'd need some darn good ears to tell the difference that would show up on the guage of the ones shown in Ricks pic. Those ar very sensitive to imbalance :)
But a good ear will do a close enough job if you're not too fussy, but once at revs it's hard with all the other noise around you IMO :wink:
 
The idea of doing the job purely by ear is an interesting one but frankly not something that I would feel confident to try.

I think the Gunson route is the one I shall use as the prices are very reasonable given that they seem to work well enough.

Thanks guy for your input :)
 
Has anyone bought one of those German devices and used it?
I have tried using the hose method and cannot distinguish any difference in the hiss, even with my hearing aids in :confused:
Peter
 
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