No flame from me, even though I now have a gauge, but for years I relied
on a length of hose held at the carb throat, the other end at my ear.
Still need to disconnect the linkage, though. I, too, have been victim
of the "professionally tuned" car that I acquired with the carbs so
unbalanced and mal-adjusted so as to only be running on one.
Charley & Peggy Robinson wrote:
> Did this "professional" balance the air flow through the carbs at
> idle with the interconnecting linkage slackened off? That's what is
> meant by balancing. I've never seen it done right without an air flow
> meter.
>
> Now I'll catch it from all those who aver that they "don't need no
> stinkin' gauge." Flame suit on....... :-)
>
> CR
>
>
> On 8/18/2010 11:02 AM, Malcolm Jeffcock wrote:
>>
>> I think I have ruled that out as the carbs were set up
>> "professionally" that is to say I didn't have a chance to mess them
>> up ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Malcolm
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charley & Peggy Robinson"
>> <ccrobins@ktc.com>
>> To: "Malcolm Jeffcock" <msjeffcock@eastlink.ca>
>> Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 1:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] hesitation
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I had the problem you describe when I got a rebuilt engine running with
>>> twin SUs.. Turned out, after I bought and used a Unisyn gauge, that the
>>> carbs were way out of balance; I.E.: it was essentially running on
>>> one
>>> carb at part throttle. If you have twin carbs you might want to check
>>> this out.
>>>
>>> CR
>>>
>>>
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