BORESCOPE On Sale...

[FJscott]

Ugh.... My fat finger hit the post before I was done.
Just saying, I don't see the need for a borescope to diagnose a motorcycle engine.
Reading the spark plug and using a handheld infrared heat detector
you can pinpoint a suspect bad jug.

[Mike Ramos]

Thank you FJ Scott for the return to sanity...

[Joe Sull]

So...You can see around corners?

[fj johnnie]

 I have never once walked into my garage and wished I had less tools. In fact it is usually the other way around. And guess what? I have one of those things.

[carey]

I know of a FJ owner that used a borescope and looked in the exhaust pipe to determine the death rattle was only the inner header delaminating from the outer header wall.  This was on one of the 84-85 models that twin wall headers.

I also think said FJ owner might also have a new FZ9 in their fleet.

[~JM~]

Here is another deal on a scope from Sears for $90.
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_SPM6922768513

The Harbor Freight scope has a 16mm camera, while the Sears scope has a 9mm camera. I don't know how the picture quality is on the Sears scope, but the smaller diameter camera is a bonus.

Good luck
~JM~

[~JM~]

Well the Sears 9mm borescope arrived just yesterday. My initial impression was good, but it doesn't come with a protective case like the Harbor Freight unit does. I installed the four AA batteries & played with it around the house for a few minutes. It doesn't have as strong LED lighting as the Harbor Freight (HF) unit & the HF unit seems to have a better picture quality. I suppose that stands to reason that the unit with the bigger camera lens would have the better picture quality. The Sears unit will fit down a sparkplug hole on even the small diameter plugs where the HF unit will not as it is a 16mm or .630" end on it. The Sears unit also does not have any provision to install a plug jack & hook it up to a larger monitor or a recording device like the HF unit does.

So there you have my very informal notes on the two units. If you want to go through a sparkplug hole to inspect a cylinder, then the Sears unit is the way to go. If you have an entrance that a 16mm end will pass through, then the HF unit is better.

Good luck
~JM~