so we adjusted valves on the piston cars last weekend, it took longer to figure out how to do it than to figure out the 20b swap. piston engines are d-u-m-b, dumb



mike

 

Yes, I did it on the GTO a few times and wow what a PITA. God forbid you have to do it on a DOHC V12...

 

yeah, these were the easy ones, some of the "fancy" cars you have to measure and cut the valves til its right!



mike

 

yeah, the difficulty factor is why I'm about to pay to have someone do my motorcycle for me. I've done it before on an old bike, but I'm not sure I'm too good with those feeler gauges (is this too tight? too loose?). plus on the old bike, nobody told us that the TDC mark could also mark the opposite end of the stroke, so we made it like 200% worse.

 

Adjusting valves is hard? Tighten them up, loosen until they clatter, tighten a half-turn.

 

Adjusting valves are hard?

stop being a ***** , I used to drive around with spare pushrods and

rocker arms until I went with roller rockers ( kept breaking them with the solid cam ), I used to swap pushrods and adjust valves in the dark. Shouldnt have been a problem for a man of your caliber.

 

i dont understand piston engines, once we figured out how it works adjusting the clearance was easy



mike

 

I didnt know and still dont know all there is about rotories



But come on, you never had a piston engine? What was your first car?

 

an audi, but those are hydraulic. i havent really had a piston engine car since 94-95. i can fix a gsl-se in the dark though



mike

 

An 86 RX7