Reminds me of when a mate who had next to no mechanical experience decided that he would adjust the mixture on the 2 carbys on his Alfa something or other. He had no idea that balancing of carbys is almost magic and when he came to me with the problem I had even less idea, but at least I wouldn't have touched them. I am sure it was/is an art-form with guys using hoses to pickup the sound of the air drawn through them.
I loved my first car with fuel injection, even though it was a VN commodore.
Select to expand quoteFormulaNova said..
Reminds me of when a mate who had next to no mechanical experience decided that he would adjust the mixture on the 2 carbys on his Alfa something or other. He had no idea that balancing of carbys is almost magic and when he came to me with the problem I had even less idea, but at least I wouldn't have touched them. I am sure it was/is an art-form with guys using hoses to pickup the sound of the air drawn through them.
I loved my first car with fuel injection, even though it was a VN commodore.
Yes, you hold one end of a tube near (emphasis on near) your ear, and the other end next to each of the carburettor's Inlet throats. Adjust the slide/butterfly Inlet so they sound the same.
If only we could only just talk about engines on a wind sport forum we would have peace
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Yes, you hold one end of a tube near (emphasis on near) your ear, and the other end next to each of the carburettor's Inlet throats. Adjust the slide/butterfly Inlet so they sound the same.
I get what you're saying and it sounds plausible, but I think I really need to know what would Carantoc do? Sure, other people have used the sound to balance carbies, but he has probably got some strange reason for it not being the best way. I am only after the best way.
No doubt there have been cases where people used hoses and the mixtures were way off and those people survived but they probably have long term after effects from the tuning of the carbys.
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...but I think I really need to know what would Carantoc do? ....
It has been agreeed by quorum that Carantoc isn't the seabreeze.com.au small engine carburettor expert. Why would you want to see Carantoc's advice before actual experts ?
Besides Carantoc lives in the 21st century and anyone driving car that has carburettors should have a serious look at their own carbon footprint and the effect of their selfish hobbies on others and the environment.
Go electric. Or at least go fuel injected. Or at least failing that carry on with your sinful ways but don't preach to others.
How dare you.
On the back of this very informative thread I purchased a kit for a Honda mower, the kit included a coil, spark plug, air filter & a carby. The kit was good except, The carby was crap, flooded from the beginning via a sticky float valve. I cannibalised the required parts from the cheap carby and now all is good. Thanks SB
this trend of buying bits of guns and electronics for cheap and frankensteinin concerns me
soon we will need to know how to shoo the electrical engineers away by throwing capacitors valves and resistors as they circle my broken white goods with theyre temu parts around my tv like vultures to a carcass
this is how cyber punk begins im not ready for akira to be a documentary
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On the back of this very informative thread I purchased a kit for a Honda mower, the kit included a coil, spark plug, air filter & a carby. The kit was good except, The carby was crap, flooded from the beginning via a sticky float valve. I cannibalised the required parts from the cheap carby and now all is good. Thanks SB
I think someone here made fun of the idea of mixing OEM and new Chinese parts...
It's good that they often copy the sizes exactly if not the materials.
I once overclocked a CPU running at 4.77 mhz, got it up to 8.7 before it failed, so I backed it off a bit. This meant that my spreadsheet refresh took 30 minutes instead of 45. FTW!
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Mechanics used to know how to fix things, now they just replace things.
That really bugs me... When a mechanic reads scan codes and comes up with a bunch of faulty sensor codes but is not smart enough to think it something else in common and not just 5 sensors that all decided to fail at once...
what bothers me is not being able to install new brake pads on a mercedes without any computer involvment because you need to retype in the new brake pad depth otherwise it behaves asif the old thin pads are still on
Cracasac will be pleased to learn than both my chainsaws, with rebuilt original carbies, started today after two or three years. The vintage one, without a primer bulb, needed a splash of fuel on the air cleaner filter. But here was plenty of noise, smoke and dismembered trees.
