Wanted 14MM Colortune

needing a 14mm colortune for my 83 xj900 or rent one from someone so i can get my mixtures done. i know its a useful tool but i just cant reason spending 50$ for a new one.

 

Buy it.... You'll use it a lot---- I now have a 10mm, 12mm, AND 14mm. I can check just about anything

 

Keep an eye on eBay etc. I scored mine new on there for $25.

 

I know I'll use it but i can't justify 50 bucks or more right now

 

Aww... Ya gotta do better than that!!!! You can justify ANYTHING if you really want to----

 

------ or need to.......

 

trust me i need to with how unexperienced i am with the old fashion mixture way XD. just slight money tightness till work starts back up. i think i may do it and just bite the handlebar

 

why do these look different compared to

 

The top picture shows a broken one (missing the insulator).

 

thats what i was worried about. he wants 25$ for that one and 30 for another with the same look but i thought it looked wrong. he says they work

 

Ooooo..... $25 for a broken colortune sounds like a steal. Think long and hsrd about who's doing the stealing though.....sure not gonna be me trying to buy it---

 

well supposedly someone got ahold of colortune and they sent them free insulators... being in the USA i doubt they would do it. dont get why people post stuff saying they work when they're actually broke kinda sorta

 

The plug MIGHT still work fine, and you could always put some heavy-duty shrink tube (or wrap the stud with electrical tape) and it might work to get your job done. You just don't want the electricity jumping from that stud to the "hex nut" portion of the plug (ground) as the plug wouldn't fire, and make it kinda useless.........

 

There should be two insulators on there.... It looks like one long one but it's actually two short ones stacked up. The top is removeable, I don't know if the bottom unthreads. I haven't tried. It could be as simple as someone took the off the lost them, I guess.

 

FWIW, I just noticed last night while working on the Kaw that my colortune is also missing the insulator. Works fine at idle but if you rev it up a bit the spark will jump. Not an issue for me as I don't use it for anything other than pilot mixture.

Mine is definitely an older one, there are some other older ones on ebay right now that also are listed as NOS but are missing the insulator. I wonder if the older ones didn't have them for some reason.

 

Yea i did some research. I guess first versions didn't get them and couldn't handle as much pressure. So they revised fixed it with An insulator and made them stronger.