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On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 10:50, Daniel Baum wrote: > > ALL the valves were tight, and one seemed to have no gap at all. Half way > through I realised that I could overcome my inexperience by adjusting to > what I thought was .006" and then making sure that the .008" feeler won't go > through, so I went back to cylinders 1 and 2 and found that they were too > loose. I understand from all sorts of sources that a loose valve in far less > serious than a tight one so if it's .007" I hope it doesn't matter. > I usually use a .004/.006 go/nogo feeler gage, and set them so that the .004 is loose, and the .006 part just goes in. .007 will not hurt the engine. > > PS Why does an early (1963 I think) Type 34 user manual say that you should > adjust the valves to .012" (.30mm)? > The early engines had a different system of mounting the rocker arms to the heads. Therefore, the valve adjustments were different. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe