DIY - Dual/Triple or Quad Carburetor Sync Tool

by chesterjohn

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Intro: DIY - Dual/Triple or Quad Carburetor Sync Tool

A vacuum gauge can be costly especially if you need it only once and a while to sync your motorcycle carburetors. But where we are stationed they don't even have gauges. So I had to resort to making my own Carburetor sync tool from scratch.

Parts
2 - 24oz (16-24ox will do) Glass Welches Grape Juice bottles (gaterade, starbuck's coffee bottles will do as long as they are glass) Empty do not use the juice or drink for the gauge wrong viscosity. - do not use plastic
2 - Rubber chair leg guards (size them up for a tight fit) you may also use rubber beaker stoppers from your local science craft store.
2 - 6' lengths of 3/8" clear rubber hose. Must be resistant to heat
1 - 28" length of 1/4 clear rubber hose. Must be resistant to automatic transmission fluid.
3 - 20" Zip Ties
½ quart of ATF / power steering fluid
1 - Small tube of silicon sealant

Tools
Scissors
Drill with 3/8th inch drill bit and a 1/4th inch drill bit. or a hot iron for wood burning to make holes
ball pen
T-pin or Ice Pick

Instructions
1) Drink all your juice it is good for you. Then wash and dry the bottles completely
2) Take and Mark your 2 Rubber chair leg guards (caps) where you will put the holes.
3) Pierce the marked spots with your T-pin or ice pick.
4) Drill or burn holes to size
5) Place your rubber caps on your bottles.
6) Put the 28" of 1/4th inch hose through one hole in each bottle, align them next to each other. Make sure this hose goes all the way down to the bottom of each bottle
7) Put the 6 foot pieces of rubber hose one per bottle. These will hook to your vacuum nipple where you vacuum hoses go on your carburetor intakes. Make sure you only put in about 2 inches of hose into each bottle. This will keep you from sucking fluid into your manifold.
8) Zip tie your two bottles together
9) Remove caps and fill each bottle 1/4th the way up with ATF and replace caps
10) Put some silicon sealant around each hose on your rubber caps let 24 hours.

Add one bottle for each additional Carburetor. Use T connection nipples to join bottles together.

You are ready to sync your carburetors.

Attach one line to each carburetor vacuum intake. Start engine and idle adjust center screw between carburetors. If to much to one side it will suck fluid into that sides bottle adjust the screw the other way to equalize the suction. When they are the same the fluid levels will be equal.

While this tool works for Motorcycles It may also work on dual Holly carburetors on your old 350 Chevy.

12 Comments

mscearce 8 years ago

Super easy and cheap to build.

LarryK77 4 years ago

More photos about hose connection to carburator?

triumph david 8 years ago

I built this for work on my 1976 T140V Triumph Bonneville. Performs great and alot cheaper than a set of vacuum gauges and i got to drink some grapejuice!

triumph david 8 years ago

I built this for work on my 1976 T140V Triumph Bonneville. Performs great and alot cheaper than a set of vacuum gauges and i got to drink some grapejuice!

triumph david 8 years ago

I built this for work on my 1976 T140V Triumph Bonneville. Performs great and alot cheaper than a set of vacuum gauges and i got to drink some grapejuice!

triumph david 8 years ago

I built this for work on my 1976 T140V Triumph Bonneville. Performs great and alot cheaper than a set of vacuum gauges and i got to drink some grapejuice!

triumph david 8 years ago

I built this for work on my 1976 T140V Triumph Bonneville. Performs great and alot cheaper than a set of vacuum gauges and i got to drink some grapejuice!

FredM30 8 years ago

I liked his because iut can't suck up fluid.

So if you connect 4, 6 of these, do you just keep adjusting until they are all the same? It works like that? Any carb that is high will have the highest fluid level.\? I assume it would trake a little time each adjustment.

Thanks

Nick

chesterjohn 8 years ago

here is a video of a guy who did one with
four. I don't suggest using water as he says because the desity of
water is too light and moves to quickly. USE Automatic Transmission Fluid. and you don't need the extra hose that connects back to the last bottle. They can just be hooked to thefour or six bottles so use an elbow on each end bottle and tees on the center bottles.

he expalins it quite well on how it function and what to do.

chesterjohn 8 years ago

yes it will work the same for four or six just takes more adjustments.

jimmystyler 8 years ago

Hello there! Could you add a step on how to use it? I mean, knowing where to plug the cables in the carburators and if it's needed some kind of preparation on the engine before hooking it up (like removing the air filter, draining fuel, draining engine oil, ...). Thanks in advance.