TR6 TR6 Carb measurement

[mrv8q]

Nelson Reidel show this tool in his 3-part carb tutorial, to measure the highest point of the float:

What exactly is this tool? What should I ask for, to get the correct measurement? Thanks! Hopefully, I'll be driving this car soon!

 

[poolboy]

That's a vernier caliper. When you open the jaws this projects dowm from the "handle" the same amount that the jaws open. You read that.

 

[TR3driver]

My guess would be dial caliper, tho it's impossible to tell if it's dial or vernier (or digital) from that photo. But I switched because I was starting to have trouble reading the verniers, and Nelson's eyes are older than mine.

Note that there is a wide range of prices for dial calipers (or verniers for that matter). I get the cheap ones from https://www.use-enco.com/ , so I can have several of them lying around and hopefully handy when I need one. Their website seems to be down at the moment, but they usually have them on sale for about $15 (for 6" cheap Chinese).

But you really don't need a caliper to measure float height, an ordinary ruler will work plenty well enough.

 

[BobbyD]

Frank Fisher makes this tool which has a minimum and maximum side to it. There's a few other pictures and his email address here https://tr6.danielsonfamily.org/FrankFisher.htm