[DeTomaso] Have you touched your valves lately?

Thomas Tornblom Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se
Sun Jun 22 15:16:20 EDT 2008


Valve lash decreases when the valves sink into the seats...

Charles McCall skrev:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Interesting that 100% of the valves were way too tight. I brought the car to
> a trusted shop that has just been certified by Porsche, which is a long and
> complicated process. So I figured that if they satisfied Porsche with their
> quality, they could probably adjust some valves on a Cleveland! I don't know
> if they converted inches to metric wrong and used the wrong feeler gauge or
> what happened. the lash was all completely consistent, but consistently too
> tight! So I ended up adjusting all 16 valves. 
> 

Thomas




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