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<x-charset iso-8859-1>I believe that the .004 reccomedation was dropped in the mid 60's, certainly before the FI came out. perhaps it will still run OK with .004, especially if there all the same but it leaves less room for error if a valve tightens up. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf ?? Next ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [T3] Valve check and a little reminder. > 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? > > - > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe > </x-charset>