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Re: [T3] Valve check and a little reminder.


<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Wednesday 24 October 2001 22:20, Jim Adney wrote:
> On 24 Oct 2001, at 20:22, Keith Park wrote:
> > It should Idle better now, the FI is critical to intake valve
> > adjustment... HOWEVER, due to this your intake valves need to be at
> > .006, the factory reccomended clearance.
>
> .004 will be fine for the intakes. The factory recommendation was
> .004/.004 until they started having too many exhaust valve
> problems and warrantee claims. They switched their
> recommendation to .006/.006, but there was never any problem
> with the intakes, so I have been doing mine at .004/.006 for 25
> years.
>
> What do you do, Russ?
>
I use a .004-.006 go/no-go feeler gage. I set the exhausts so the  .006 just 
goes in,  and I set the intakes to a loose .004.

-- 
Russ Wolfe
'71 Fastback AT
'66 Fastback MT (IT RUNS)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org

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