OK..
who's got a "Colortune" ?

Gunninson is the brand of mine ..from merely Olde.

you watch the color of the flame inside the combustion chamber with this
device..
goes in a spark plug hole.
For mixture adjusting, and disagnosis.
I've never bothered to use it yet ...someone just gave it to me a while
back.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hargrave" <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Friday NVC: British Carburettor hilarity

>I remember Unisyn with the little floating ball on the side. I have one
> somewhere.
>
> I got away from using that tool & went to a mercury manometer on cars &
> motorcycles with a vacuum port and a stethoscope on those that did not.
>
> One trick most don't know about is - with milti-carbed engines you can
> listen to the base of each with a stethoscope. Each carb venture makes a
> whistle when air is passing through & when the pitch is the same they are
> in
> balance.
>
> Tom
> www.towercooler.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
> John Rodgers
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 1:16 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Friday NVC: British Carburettor hilarity
>
>  Back in the 60's I lived in the Florida Keys. I bought a used Volvo
> 544 with a dual carbed B-1800 engine and had made a killer deal - I
> thought;
> The car looked new, and I liked the way it it felt on the road and how I
> fit
> into it. Had a wife and 1st kid at the time. It made the perfect family
> machine.  Engine ran "ok" but wasn't wondeful. It ran smooth, but just
> didn't seem to have any power. It needed a tuneup I knew, and at the time,
> the only place that would even talk to me about "that Potato Bug looking
> Volvo with the funky dual carbs" was way up in Miami. So, I dutifully
> treked
> up there to try and get the 544 tune up.
> There, a mechanic took pity on me and showed me "the secret"  on how to
> tune
> the carbs. Introduced me to the wonders of the Unisyn, he did. Told me
> that
> from now on I could do it myself and not have to drive to Miami.
> With his tuning, when I drove away I was amazed at the power gained. I
> never
> hired out another tuning on that engine again after that. Wish I still had
> that car. But - someone ran a stop sign and crunched it for me. Bought a
> brand new Volvo after that. But it wasn;'t the same. That model 544 was
> special.  Much later I bought a baby blue Jaguar XKE V-12 convertible with
> FOUR Stromberg carbs. A Unisyn tool came in the glove box - but that is
> another story.
>
> John
>
>
> John Rodgers
> Clayartist and Moldmaker
> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> Chelsea, AL
> Http://www.moldhaus.com
>
>
> On 10/15/2010 12:29 PM, Rowan Tipton wrote:
>> I thought everyone had a unisyn.  I used it a lot on various
>> multicarbed VWs and various British sport cars.  I doubt that I've
>> touched it in 25 years.
>>
>> r
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Loren Busch wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A Unisyn is way better, IMHO. You can get very, very accurate
>>>> readings from the floating plastic ball, much more than by listening
>>>> to a hose.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Jim, you realize that there are a bunch of people rading this thread
>>> and wondering what the h**l we are talking about.
>>> My Unisyn went to a close friend that was just finishing a complete
>>> restoration on a TR-2, back in the early '70s.
>>
>>