Need help with Honda Magna V30

Hi,

I need to sync the carbs. I found something stating that the place where you attach your gauges is at the top of the carbs, with a phillips screw.

I cannot find *anything* of that sort at the top of the carbs. The one thing I have found, and strongly suspect, is at the top of the manifold connection, at the bottom of the carb, there is a phillips screw there.

Another question: does anyone know if the boots of the spark plug wires come off so that I could replace wires? A PO has some electrical tape wrapping one wire and I am wondering if that is causing the misses I get at high revs/speed. I don't get them when cruising around 30 -45 mph, but get up to around 70 ... it gets very annoying and is clearly robbing me of power/costing fuel. Has probably fouled the plug(s) as well.

I have been having problems with idling. Sometimes it revs up into the 3-5K range, then it will drop and plummet into stall. I found that the seal around the top and bottom halves of the air box was pretty much non-existent, so I used black electrical tape to wrap it and sealed the seams. It helped, but the problem keeps on, though somewhat abated.

Anyone have any help?

 

Honda typically uses a Phillips screw in the head or sometimes the carburetor throat itself. If you're finding Phillips screws near the carb holders in the heads those will be it. They have aluminum crush washers under them - drop the washer and your magnetic hand won't save you.

Most sync gauges come with adapters that thread into those holes.

 

Ok, if I understand you correctly, then it is the one I thought: bottom of the carb, between the manifold and the carbs.