Technical The Specialized Tools Of Hot Rodding

Syncing my four Stromberg 97 carbs is made easier with one of these:

"Edelbrock 4025 Uni-Syn Carburetor Synchronizing Tool"
(image from SPEEDWAY Motors)​

UPDATE: Took some snapshots of my "UNI - SYN MULTIPLE CARBURETOR SYNCHRONIZER":

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... and the little booklet that came with it:

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Stuff?
Just step right over to Hanford Auto Parts and Machine, Mr. McMaster has every machine you would need to do your: Nailhead, Y Block, Olds, Buick and your John Deere tractor.

 

Sorry Ryan can't spare any worm thoughts it was -13 this morning and some how my pickup started. I do have one of those value refacing tools snap on. Pretty cool my dad talked about my grandpa using one in his old Sinclair station. He's passed on so some day I will find a operator to show me how.

 

Is that a engine stand?

 

The carb sync tools were around in the 60's in magazine adds so I'd think a guy could find a real one.
We had one of those engine stands in the school shop that I taught in that had a broken wheel and never got used. Mostly it got shoved from one corner to another where ever it was out of the way. I didn't know what they were then and it probably got donated by one of the dealerships in town before I started teaching the class.
It's 13 here and too cold to go dig out a couple of my favorite old tools for photos.
My niece posted that it was cold in Austin yesterday but I didn't think pipe freezing cold.

 

Yep
Right here in Portland, P&G made these way back, also made a valve gapper.

 

Natural patina is the way to go on these machines.

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I won't share any worm thoughts either

 

Not just for hot rods but very handy for early Ford V-8s.

 

Specialty I dunno.. but this one is pretty special to me.

 

After you get your pipe thawed out with a blow dryer.
And when the weather gets cold enough to freeze them. Turn your faucets on to a slight stream. Not a drip.
Even works up here in the frigid north.

 

And shifters, and a displacement checker, that was so universal guys started using"p&g'd" as a euphemism for getting the displacement checked in tech.

 

P & G, also sold a racing uniform, (a glorified pair of coveralls)I borrowed one when I ran my Altered Roadster for the first time. Bruce Cassidy ( dragster chassis builder) machined most of the parts for their products.

 

You could get the German SK gauge, they're better than the Chinese version shown above.

http://vwparts.aircooled.net/Snail-Type-Syncrometer-Carb-Sync-Tool-GERMAN-SK-p/ste-sk.htm

 

Wonder no more! I have a vintage version that's been in my family since the early seventies. The instructions are even in the box with it. It's the same brand and style that HEMI32 posted, though mine MAY have been made in America. It doesn't say "tawain" on the casting like HEMI32's does, and the box says it was sold by Edelbrock. Oddly, I don't think of it as a hot rod tool, since my hot rods don't have multiple carbs. I use it on my '53 MG and '68 Volvo, and a few old BMW bikes. None of them strikes me as much of a hot rod!

 

I have a genuine uni-sync as well, I don't think they were actually made by edelbrock, they just imported them, put them in an edelbrock box and sold them. They were made in Europe I believe, I will try to dig mine up next time I am at my other place and see where it was made.

 

I was disappointed that mine doesn't have any indication where it was made, not even in the instruction sheet. It does have a US patent number cast into it, as well as an indication that foreign patents are pending.

 

I thought they were made inEurope. No shame in that, most stuff made in Europe back in the day was better made thanAmerican stuff. The "race to the bottom" was a US invention.

 

These two pieces of equipment were used regularly in my repair shop many years ago, not so much anymore. They have been relegated to the shipping container out back.. Brake lathe and distributor machine are real handy to have around when you need them. Probably not something I would buy now if I didn't already have them.

 

More from Hanford
An official Sunnen work lab coat

 

I still have my two Uni-Syns from when I first went over to the European side. Mine were of German mfg., got them right out of Vasek Pollack's tool stock in Parts Dep't.
I also had some identical, with 'Whitworth' die-cast into the bases.
Quite sure the patent was international.

Also, now have a 'like NEW' Sioux valve grinder, (complete with metal box containing the Hard seat grinder, complete with all the sizes of shafts available then: 1946)
Sioux set was a bonus after full payment for wiring a '40 sedan with 389 Pontiac.
I acquired a manual for these machines from BEAM manufacturing, look 'em up on the internet, beammanufacturing.com. They have many work manuals for most machines.

Same customer's black Nitrocellulose '30 'A' Coupe (350/350, full fendered) also got complete wiring, (street rod; A/C, full sound system, power windows, all my work performed over those beautiful fenders)
Paid in full, again; PLUS, a new in box Perfection-Schwank Infra Red gas heater to hang in my shop; a 2 HP, 6 foot X 4 aluminum blade electric fan to disperse the heat, and a Coates tire changer!
His appreciation was 'noted'...

 

It's a beautiful sunny Summer morning in the Southern hemisphere, so here's your sunshine.

And here's a pic of the tool I use the most, when it comes to Hot Rodding, and a truckload of other good things.

 

I have one of the yellow-boxed Uni-syn's, as mentioned above, that I have had since the mid-1960's. But I also have one that is older, and is made differently. Instead of the flat surface with the felt, it is made in the shape of a dome, and fits 1950's 4-barrels. Does not say where made. It is stamped PAT PEND, and MODEL 4 BAR.

And while many would not necessarily think of these, specialized carburetor tools are nice also (at least from my standpoint).

Another tool I find quite useful is an Allen oscilloscope.

Jon.

 

Screw you Jeff...

 

I love old tools! Got a shop full of them, some on display some in use. Tony already has posted some but here are a few more.






Those are a few on display, including an "in the vehicle crankshaft grinder". Here are some that are still in use, maybe not so old as others but certainly as old as myself on some of them.





My favorite "Old" thing is the building everything is kept in, built in 1922 still has a old feel about it right down to a counter full of catalogs. Come by and visit next time you are in the central valley of California.

 

Four barrel uni-syn:

http://www.thecarburetorshop.com/Uni-syn_4-bar_1.jpg

http://www.thecarburetorshop.com/Uni-syn_4-bar_2.jpg

Jon