[Mgs] Rocker shims

[Max Heim]

I didn't mean, swap the pushrods (but if you think you might have reversed
them, I'd definitely try swapping #1 and #8). I meant find another rocker
and substitute it for the one at #8, on the theory the threads were damaged.

When you removed the rocker shaft, did you replace all the shims in the
original locations? They can stick to the base of the pedestals, so you
don't even realize they are there, then fall off later and get mixed up or
lost.

But you don't want to just try inserting shims at random -- I would imagine
that would just bend the shaft.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

on 6/29/09 11:14 AM, thgun at comporium.net at thgun at comporium.net wrote:

> When I removed the rods I stored them in order. When I replaced them I thought
> that I may have reversed the order that they came from. The number 8 would not
> adjust. I have screwed the adjuster all the way out. Still tight. So I
> wondered about using shims. I was told that I should use the same rod in the
> same valve slot. 
> Thanks for the info,
> Tom Gunderson
> 1957 mga 1500 rst
> 
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:40:57 -0700
>> From: Max Heim <max_heim at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Rocker shims
>> To: MG List <mgs at autox.team.net>
>> 
>> Why not? Do you mean there is not enough thread in the adjuster to get it
>> where you want to go?
>> 
>> Hard to believe you shaved the head that much, that you need a shorter
>> pushrod. Maybe the threads are just fouled. Swap with a different rocker and
>> try again?
>> 
>> on 6/29/09 9:24 AM, Tom Gunderson at thgun at comporium.net wrote:
>> 
>>> I cannot adjust the #8 valve after the head had been machined. Any
>>> ideas?
>>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires