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From: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@byu.net>
Pull the valve cover.
Turn the engine the right way and watch the valve train.
Count the valves from the front (fan blade back) for convenience.
(There better be 8! :)
SNIP
you gauge should slide through without binding,
but without slop.
Snip
You should be good to go. (I learned from the factory manual and the
Haynes manual. I doubt that I have told you anything that you can't
find in there.)
Andrew Lundgren
lundgren@byu.net
http://www.Lundgren.us
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:43:07 +0200, Jon Erikstad wrote:
>I plan to adjust the valve opening myself, but I have never done it
>before. I have a couple of manuals, but does anybody have a
'adjusting
>valves for idiots' step by step procedure? In easy English?
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I still have the problem, here what I have done, and some more testing
- I have adjusted the valves. Thanks Andrew ! 2-3 of them were i bit
'tight. I may now have them a bit too open, also the ones I did not
touch. I have never done it before, so I think I get the not binding,
but I havent got the feel the other way
- Adjusted the spark plugs, they were i bit too wide.
- adjusted the gap point in the distributor, the gap was too small:
- Changed front brake pads :)
Here is (are) my problem(s)
- Going downhill, using the engine as a brake ( no foot on the
pedal), pops an loud bangs from the exhaust
- It starts to misfire at around 3500-4000 RPM, the problem, i can
feel the car hesitates then revs on, hesitates etc.
If I rev it standing still, no problem.
- There is a hill on the highway close to where I live, going up, it
started to misfire/hesitate at lower RPM.
The misfire/hesitation is a bit difficult to explain in english, it's
like the ignition misses a 'few beats'
Any ideas ?
New spark plugs? Point/capacitor/rotor in the ? New leads?
Remembet it just had a rolling road setup, he adjusted the weber and
the distributor
I am going on vacation on tuesday, probably with my other M-car :(
Jon Arikstad
1970 MGB GT
1987 MB 230E
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