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Location: Port Macquarie Australia
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Dial Guage for Valve Adjustment
I am adjusting my valves with the engine out, I put a dial guage using the Z block on the tip of the rocker adusting screw after making the adjustment using the special feeler guage. The Dial guage showed that there was nearly double the specified clearance (0.18 instead of 0.10mm) on all the valves I had adjusted.
Is the dial guage measurement the prefered method or is there extra clearance built in with the assumption a feeler guage will be used?
Steve
Oh before you say "you didn't use the feeler guage properly" I was careful that it gave a "magnetic" type of drag
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