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<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Monday 29 October 2001 10:04, Jim Adney wrote: > Listees, > > The question has come up about what to set your cold valve lash > to, and when VW changed its recommendation. > > I know that the 68s came with a recommended setting of > .004/.004" and I assume that the 67s were the same, since they > had the same heads. Still it would be good if someone with an > original 67 owner's manual could verify this. > > Over the weekend I had a chance to look thru some of my stuff and > I found that my very early 72 owner's manual shows .004/.004" but > the 73 manual shows .004/.006. From this I suspect that VW > changed its recommendation sometime during the 72 model year, > and I suppose that there may even be late 72 owner's manuals out > there with the .006/.006" recommendation in them. > > Those of you with 72s and 73s should check your owner's manuals > and let us know if you find something different that I found. > > Once VW changed their recommendation, they made it retroactive > back to ???? I don't really know. I suspect at least 68, but possibly > 67. My recommendation is .004/.006, intake/exhaust as the > exhaust valves are the only ones that run hot and have a problem. > I just checked my '71 owners manual, (page 96), and the recommended valve clearance is .006 for both intake and exhaust. -- Russ Wolfe '71 Fastback AT '66 Fastback MT (IT RUNS) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org </x-charset>