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Re: Carb Synchro

To: "alpines@autox.team.net" <alpines@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Carb Synchro
From: ellis838@concentric.net
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:14:22 -0400
 Adjust them as close as you can get then lock the coupling down, now 
you can do minor adjustments to each with them locked together for the 
final balance. Keep in mind that points, timing and valves all need to 
be adjust right before you do the sync. Keep tinkering you will get it. 
     Jim

The Lees wrote:

>So I invested in a Unisyn and after the usual first timer blues finally got 
>the red indicator in the middle of the tube for both carbs. I thought my 
>troubles were over but the ghost of Harvey Rootes won't leave me 
>alone.Regardless of how I tinker with the coupling/clamping bolt ,when I pull 
>on the throtle lever to increase the RPM the air valve piston on the front 
>carb always lifts before the rear piston. Ergo, the throttles aren't really 
>synchronized. The throttle lever is directly connected to the front throttle 
>so the problem is really how to eliminate/compensate/eradicate the slop in the 
>coupling to the rear one. And speaking of ghosts, when I tighten the throttle 
>clamping bolt, the RPM's increase  2 to 3 hundred.. Go figure. Somedody out 
>there has come up with a common sense solution to this problem. But then again 
>I don't really believe in common sense. If sense were common everybody would 
>have it.                     
>John Lee 
>Still toying with my son,s SV B395000793LRX 
>
>.

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