I was just goofing around yesterday in the shop and I decided to make an easier and cheaper solution to the hard-to-reach rear carb idle screws on the Six Pack setups. Those of you who know what I am talking about can appreciate this!
I am too cheap to buy the high-dollar "Competitors"
re-designed baseplate with the relocated screw location so I set out for an alternative. I took a pair of 8-32x1"lg. 316 stainless set screws and machined my own replacement mixture screws. It is much easier to get at them being that it is a 3/32" hex. I made a quick and dirty ball-end driver so that I can make adjustments with ease! I backcut the ball-end relief some more so I can get at them at about a sixty-degree angle. I have a long version that I put the hex wrench into a 1/4" diameter MDS-filled nylon "handle" which is nothing more than drilling a pilot hole and then heating up the wrench and melting it into the stock. I put an index mark on it so I could monitor the movement accurately. The second iteration is the same concept but with a stiff spring as a compliant joint to gain access with an even more acute angle.






Works like a charm!
I just thought I would share it with you guys!

Regards,
Bud

AWESOME, thanks for sharing!

Ray

Great Idea Bud! ....are you going to "market" those?

Never really thought about it. I guess I could help out those who need it.

Nice Bud Those "other plates" are complete garbage. Machine quality just sucks... good idea just poorly machined. They always hang up and cause a high idle. Dangerous really

A friend of mine used to solder a speedo cable to the mixture screws with some nuts soldered on the very end. It was easy to adjust but you always had the speedo cables hanging out. I guess you could just clip'em off when you have it setup.

Myself I always just keep moving the front to the back

Yeah, not to mention that you have to swap all of your stuff over to those plates as well. You would think for the money that they would come ready-to-run

Paid $115 when they first came out,production cost must have really gone up!

Very nice design. I went even one step easiers than that. I took the side metering screws that are in any old metering block off any 750 style carb & installed them in the base plate of my six pack carbs. These mixture screws are alittle longer in length & make the slotted end stick out of the base plate slightly so you can see what you are doing. I then un-bent an old wire coat hanger, straightened it out cut to about 24" long flattened & ground on end like a small screw driver & made a small handle on the other end to be able to twist it. Works great, took 5 mins to make & was all free.