In a message dated 8/27/2007 8:49:14 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
jimmuller@rcn.com writes:
But I remember years ago (okay,
decades ago) watching someone adjusting valves while the engine was
running. Okay, it was some boring American iron and probably running
about 400 rpm. IIRC it wasn't even too messy. I've never had the
nerve to try it myself.
The last time I adjusted the valves on a Triumph (62 TR3) was in 1970, in
the yard in front of the trailer I lived in while going to college....I used
just this method you describe. Listening through a length of hose, tightening
until it quits clacking, and then backing off just a smidge. It ran great
when I finished. It was a bit messy, but not too bad.
A couple of years later on my 53 Chevy pickup with the in-line six, I cut a
flap in the top of an extra valve cover and used the same method to adjust
those valves.
I've seen my dad use a feeler guage while an engine was running.
Robert B. Houston
Texan in New Mexico
63 TR4
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg
carburetors in his vintage Triumph, highly functional yet pleasingly formed,
perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced
hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and
adjusted as
described in chapter seven of the shop manual.
Dan McKay
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