[TR] synching carbs

[Michael Marr]

I've used this method for almost forty years.  Never felt the need for the 
new-fangled gauges and such.  And I set the mixture by the "lifting the carb 
piston" method.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph at btinternet.com>
To: <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] synching carbs



> really can 'smell' it! Having then initially set the slow idle, you can 
> use a short piece of garden hose pipe to one ear to compare the level and 
> pitch of intake hiss. One of my 'tools' (and I copied it from many 
> colleagues) was to use an old twin tube stethoscope. That way, on a twin 
> SU set up, you can hear the hiss in 'stereo' and do the fine tuning that 
> way. I later graduated to a single tube steth that in itself was extremely 
> useful for diagnosing other internal rumbles and rattles before they 
> became serious.