In a message dated 12/2/2005 11:29:37 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
anabil007@comcast.net writes:
I must confess that I bought a Click Adjust from Moss, and I can't
make the darn thing work ... however ... I have never really
been able to figure out how to adjust valve clearances even using a
feeler gauge ... yeah I know I must be stupid. I would love to
find a school ... or whatever that could give me hands on experience
doing this sort of thing. I have managed to install the HDVA tranny
in the TR3, replace the driveshaft and replace the pinon oil seal
in the TR6 so I am not a total goof working on cars, but I just
can not "get it" in adjust in valves ...
ANY ideas gratefully accepted ...
Here, let me tug up my flame proof underwear and I'll tell you how we did it
under to old shade tree when I was a boy.
We took off the valve cover and started the engine. Then we loosened each
valve and tightened it until it stopped making noise, then maybe a 1/4 turn
back, kind of played with it, and then moved to the next valve.
It's really messy with oil spurting everywhere, and a piece of garden hose
helps to listen as you tighten the valve adjustment, but it works.
This was one of the last things I did to my TR3 before I sold it in 1971.
Ok, ducking into das bunker to await the reasons it should never, ever be
done this way.
Robert B. Houston
Texan in New Mexico
63 TR4
73 MG Midget
94 F150
03 Beetle
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is
to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
---Alexander Hamilton
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