[Mg-t] XPAG valve clearance

[Bud Krueger]

What camshaft is in the engine?

Bud
Richard Lindsay wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> Please share your thoughts on valve clearance of a cold XPAG/TD2 engine.
>   In short, what I am wondering is what clearance I should use on a freshly
> rebuilt engine, to get it hot enough to do a proper HOT engine valve
> clearance setting.  I believe the hot clearance on the later engines is
> 0.012" so I'm guessing that 0.018" or so cold, would be fine for the
> initial warm-up.  I'd much rather suffer valve chatter for a few minutes,
> than have the clearance close up due to linear expansion.  Your thoughts?
>
> -rick
>
> PS: No, I'm nowhere near that point.  Its just a question dancing around in
> my scattered mind this morning...
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