Hi gang,
I have been happily tuning my TR3B carbs using the "rubber hose to the ear
and listen to the pitch of the hiss" method, until now. I won a gift
certificate from Terry's Jaguar Parts as door prize at the Connecticut
Triumph Register car show last year. Since I didn't need any Jaguar parts I
bought an Air Flow Meter. Same principle as a Unisyn, but there is a meter
instead of the floating balls.
Since the air cleaners came off today to get cleaned and oiled this was an
excellent opportunity to try the air flow meter. The carbs were pretty
close from last year. I loosened the coupler assembly, that accordion
pleated joint that connects the two carbs. I then dialed the carbs into
perfect unison, and tightened the coupler assembly.
Then I opened the throttle a crack and got the RPM's up to about 2200 on
the tach. I adjusted the Air Flow Meter for more air, and measured each
carb again. As I suspected, the carbs are now out of sync. The meter read
10 on the rear carb, and 14 on the front carb.
The accelerator linkage on a TR3 acts on the front of the front carb's
throttle shaft. There are two of these coupler joints between the carbs.
There is undoubtedly some slop in the couplers, and as a result, the carb
butterflys are in sync at idle, but not once you crack the throttle open.
The front carb is pulling more air.
It appears I can't get perfect synchronization at both idle and at speed.
Then, what is the optimum setting? Split the difference so both idle and at
speed are somewhat sacrificed? Or sacrifice the idle and go for perfect
synchronization at speed??? It would seem that being in sync at idle and
being farther out of sync with the throttle open is not the best way to set
it up. If this was a race car, I know that answer. ;-)
I think the accelerator linkage attachment point moved from the front of
the front carb to between the two carbs on the TR4 or thereabouts. This
would certainly be a major improvement...
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Henry Frye - thefryes@iconn.net - Connecticut, USA
Stag MkI Getting Sorted Out
TR3B Driver
TR250 X 3 The BIG Project - Will Be Worth the Wait
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