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Re: [T3] Valve setting history


<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Tuesday 30 October 2001 09:55, Per Lindgren wrote:
> Russ Wolfe wrote:
> > as the factory
> > mechanics usually set all the engines with the late style rocker arms at
> > the .006 setting.
>
> Could it be that the rocker arms dictate the valve lash? Just a sudden
> thought.
>
It has more to do with the way the heads are cast, and the rocker assemblies 
are mounted. Earlier rocker assemblies won't fit the later heads, and visa 
versa. I think the rocker ratios were actually the same, just the mountings 
were different.

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

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