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Throttle Body Synchronisation
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Can any one tell me the best type of vacuum gauges to use on an 1150gs adventure to carry out throttle body synchronisation so I can service the thing myself.

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I use halfly water filled simple transparent medical pipe (around $2) fixed on the woodplate to measure asymmetry between the TBs . A dedicated Twinmax will do well also coz lot of guys say good words about them.

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