Carb. Sychronizer ?

What would be the best synchronizer for the small shop owner ? Something
that would be estimated at being used a dozen times a year or less ?
Thanks,
Iowa883

 

Just a decent set of four vacuum gauges. What else?

 

I bought a CarbTune II this year, and like it quite a bit. It's compact
(unlike a rack of vacuum gauges), accurate, comes with a big pile of
adapters and all necessary hoses, and doesn't have any mercury in it
(big plus for me). On the other hand, it cost me $115 or so because of
the lousy exchange rate between the USD and UKP.

My local shop uses a mercury manometer. The shop guy there said that he
was always recalibrating his vacuum gauges and even then the manometer
was more accurate. I don't want to deal with storing and moving mercury,
so I rejected this option. On the other hand, manometers are compact and
relatively inexpensive (usually $40ish) as well as being accurate.

A bunch of people online have fabricated manometers that use other
fluids (ATF, water, etc.) out of clear tubing and a yardstick. They
apparently work quite well (though the reporters are likely to be
biased, given that they built the things), are inexpensive ($15ish in
parts), and if you're not moving it anywhere, the fact that it's 3ft
tall isn't that big of a deal.

A rack of vacuum gauges is your other choice: they're relatively large,
often expensive ($80ish for nice ones, I was warned against the $30ish
ones from places like JC Whitney-for all I know those work just fine),
(apparently) need to be calibrated, and are quite accurate.

THat doesn't tell you which is the best, but it does cover pretty much
all of the options. HTH

--
Later,
John



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You can buy an inline vacuum restrictor at Pep Boys for maybe a buck or two
if you fear sucking up fluids from your home made manometer. I did it on
mine and it dampens the fluid movement (colored water) nicely. I own one of
those expensive Carbunes and this cheapo thing does an even better job
albeit it is taller. Mine's on a long board without the yardstick, maybe 4
or so feet.

http://www.powerchutes.com/manometer.asp

Mack

 

....and those threaded tubes that screw into the manifold ports.

 

Well, yeah. My set of gauges was ready-supplied with those.