hey guys,iv got the carb Balancer gauges but im struggleing to find a tool to turn the adjuster screws on the underside of the carbs.

what have people used before that they found usefull?

any tips would be great.thanks pete

One of those small christmas cracker screwdrivers bent 90' in the middle works pretty well, still gona burn your hands tho...

This job is a bitch. Just did mine last week on a rvf after doing the valves. What a pain. A 7mm socket will fit onto the screws you need to turn. On carbs 2/4 the screws are really close together. I used 1/4" 7mm socket and fit that onto another socket so it would reach up into the srews. Then put a leather glove on the engine and just shoved my hand in on top of the glove. Just follow the haynes manual there on. I pulled the vacuum line off while doing carbs 1/3, was plenty of juce in them to do it. Then put the vac line back on and balanced 1 to 2/4. Saved having to set up a vacuum. Someone on here might have a better way of doing it. Bike runs great now. Good luck with it!

Buy an angled screwdriver, morgan sell one on their carbtuning site, with that its a complete doddle.

thanks for the tips guys will try the 7mm 1/4" drive technique and will deffo be useing the leather glove on the engine tip lol,will let you know how it works out in the next few days.

pete

Angle driver ^_^

+1 on what Neosophist says.
Saves all that faffing about and swearing.

so will it tell you in the haynes what to set the carbs too?

i need to take mine off to clean em so i think ill be buying a angle driver :)

what else will i need to re-setup my carbs again?

any advice with this would be great lads cheers. :)

The Haynes details the synchronisation procedure in detail. If memory serves correctly, No 3 carb has no adjuster fitted so the others are set to match.
A set of gauges will be needed too. Morgan carbtune are well recommended and you can get them at the same time as the angle driver shown above.

Tony

or take the aluminium base of the carbs and you can get through that way. You have to do it with the airbox off though mind. And keep starting and stopping the bike as you have to turn the throttle linkage to get to the adjusting screws.