[TR] Valve Adjustment

[Roger Elliott]

I converted wrong the feeler gauge I had is only marked metric.  It was 
.040.

Roger

On 07/26/2012 11:44 AM, Roger Elliott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about valves going out of adjustment.
>
> Recently, I adjusted the valves on my Spitfire (two of the valves were 
> way out of adjustment- too large of a gap).  I then took it in to a 
> shop as I could not get it to run quite right.  I asked them to adjust 
> the carbs as I thought that was the problem.
>
> Well in the process of dong that, he discovered that some of the 
> valves were way out of adjustment.  Okay I might have messed up some, 
> but he said they were about .1.
>
> Now I was changing the oil and I wanted to check the rocker assembly 
> as I thought perhaps it was loose and allowing the gap to get 
> larger.   All of the nuts were tight.
>
> But I looked at a couple of the valves and they are probably about .1 
> again.
>
> It looks like the adjusters on the valves that have the big gap don't 
> have as much of the adjusting screw sticking out the top as the others.
>
>
> What could be causing my gap to increase so much?
>
> I recently put in new tappets that were tested for hardness.
>
> Thanks,
> Roger Elliott
> 1980 Spitfire
>
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