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On 18 Feb 2006 at 23:12, Constantino Tobio wrote: > On today's agenda: Adjusted the valves, seemed largely without incident- > about 40 degrees in my garage, all valves read around .005 except for > #3, which was tighter than that (how tight, don't know, I don't have a > feeler gauge smaller than .005), adjusted all to .006 (it had been a > good 10 years since I've adjusted the valves on an aircooled VW). I did > notice there was a little bit of varnished oil in the valvetrain- to be > expected in an engine with 95k. It was darker on the left head, near the > #3 cylinder. I do the intakes to .004" and the exhausts to .006". > I'll be keeping an eye on this #3... Sounds prudent. > The other thing is I changed the plugs and points. The points in there > were gapped at much tigher than .016 (like, .012 or something), and I > threw in a new set of points, gapped to .016. Would this affect cold > starting? I recommend a dwell meter for a more accurate points setting, plus this will tell you whether the gap is consistent or if there are worn parts which are making the setting jump around. Shoot for a dwell of around 50 degrees. > I swapped all 4 plugs and marked which came from where. All 4 plugs look > about the same- electrodes are very dark brown, nearly black, and the > metal at the end of the thread (the part that's in the cylinder) is > shiny black, almost like a glaze.. No signs of wet oil on the > electrodes. I'm not sure how long these plugs have been in there. I'm > leaning towards pronouncing this vehicle as having been running a bit > rich. Thoughts? Once you get it running, check the charging system voltage and make sure that it's above 14V at med RPM on a warm engine. > So, I think this car is ready to be started. It's still going to be > absurdly cold tomorrow here in Connecticut, so I'm going to lean towards > doing this next weekend. I may leak test the fuel lines tomorrow. It was -11F here yesterday, and with a pretty strong wind, and probably even worse at Russ's place. I know I'm not doing any car work either, until things get better outside. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~