Eddie Sheffield wrote:
> BTW, what is the correct clearance for the valve adjustment? I've been
> looking at the Haynes and Bentley manuals, but there seem to be several
> clearance numbers associated with the valve train, and it isn't clear to me
> which one I should be looking at. I have Haynes here beside me, and on page
> 28 under "Valves" I see "Valve-to-rocker clearance (cold).....0.012 in" then
> a little farther down under "Valve timing" I see "Rocker clearance: timing
> only.....0.029 in." It sounds like the first one is the value I want, but I
> just want to be sure.
Eddie, you are correct. The 0.029" is only used to set the valve timing
precisely, not on a running engine. Setting the valves on a running
engine to that big a gap would lead to an engine that sounded like the
world's loudest sewing machine.
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