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  • 81xsproject
    XS-XJ Super Guru
    • Nov 2004
    • 3185
    • Fortuna, CA

    #1

    home jobby syncronizer

    I wanted to put together a carb syncronizer like this one in the carb maintanence section. I looked at horbor freight online and could find a gauge for less than around $20. Anybody no of anyplace else to get a vacuum gauge at a lower price?
    '81 XS1100 SH

    Melted to the ground during The Valley Fire

    Sep. 12th 2015

    RIP
  • RS Thornton
    XStremely XSive
    • Jul 2003
    • 343
    • Spring, Texas

    #2
    I looked around when I put mine together and eventually just bought mine at Sears for ~$20. Not sure I would want to go much cheaper as you need it to be repeatable as you valve in the each of the four carbs.
    For what it is worth I did not use the big suppression tube in the pic, I put an additional needle valve in after the gang block and it does the same thing.
    I have a bike and I am not afraid to use it

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    • 81xsproject
      XS-XJ Super Guru
      • Nov 2004
      • 3185
      • Fortuna, CA

      #3
      I saw the one at Sears and was saving that for least expensive alternative if I don't get any good leads
      '81 XS1100 SH

      Melted to the ground during The Valley Fire

      Sep. 12th 2015

      RIP

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      • LoHo
        XS-XJ Guru
        • Sep 2002
        • 1341
        • Fresno, CA

        #4
        81XS, where in Cal are you? I'm in Fresno. I bought the parts to make a synch and was putting it together when my wife made a rare journey to the garage and asked me what I was doing. I told he, and she said, "Why do you always have to Rube Goldberg some piece of crap when a ready-made one that works better can be had for a few bucks?!" So I bought a 4-dial synch and have a single vac gauge and PVC collector with fittings for sale cheap. Let me know. I might be able to meet you halfway, XS to XS....
        "Time is the greatest teacher; unfortunately, it kills all of its students."

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        • prometheus578
          XS-XJ Super Guru (RESIGNED)
          • Aug 2004
          • 4012
          • Olympia , Wa.

          #5
          Wives... they just don't get it!
          "I build, because I can. This is what real men do."
          As for women...
          Like the Kaiser said, "Kirche, Kueche, Kinder." (church, kitchen, children)
          I think he was also qouted as saying," Go back upstairs and watch Oprah!", but I'll have to research that a little.
          "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!' ('Bones' McCoy)

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          • 81xsproject
            XS-XJ Super Guru
            • Nov 2004
            • 3185
            • Fortuna, CA

            #6
            I PM'd you, LOHO.
            '81 XS1100 SH

            Melted to the ground during The Valley Fire

            Sep. 12th 2015

            RIP

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            • GNEPIG
              XS-XJ Guru
              • Apr 2005
              • 1647
              • fl

              #7
              .. wives, eeh what do they know right?. well, on second thought if your woman knows who Rube Goldberg is than she might have a point.. a Carb Stick only cost about $60 bucks
              . but hey, men cant give birth, so we build things

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