Do you do valve adjustment yourself ?

[livi]

Admittedly I suffer from a great deal of pride having successfully managed my own valve adjust this week. Still, at the no 1 Porsche forum in the world, how many do their own valve adjustments ?

[Oh Haha]

Yup.

[bigchillcar]

markus..i want your life man, where you get to be a respected physician (while i'm a bum) and you have ample time to post questions like this, too..lol
ryan

[Rot 911]

Originally posted by bigchillcar
markus..i want your life man, where you get to be a respected physician (while i'm a bum) and you have ample time to post questions like this, too..lol
ryan

Bet a male prostitute would have time during the day to post!

[bigchillcar]

Bet a male prostitute would have time during the day to post!

hey..that's my excuse. kurt..keep it on the 'down low' though..
ryan

[livi]

Its my version of John Cleeseīs 'Silly walks'.

And as I recently started out on a more than three months long 'Daddy-holiday', I will have plenty of time to post this kind of 'Silly polls'.

But seriously - I am curious as of how many of the members are doing this themselves.

Good money in male prostitution then, is it ?

[Bill in OKC]

Adjusting my valves is one of the tasks that I am more proud of. After weeks & months of fretting I "just did it". A local mechanic said they needed it so I did it... only two exhausts were actually out. The adjusters reminded me of a Triumph GT6+ I used to own, only with the Porsche I was upside down & laying on the garage floor LOL

[bigchillcar]

markus..if it were any good, i wouldn't still have to 'pull one off' so often! keep your day job!
ryan

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally posted by bigchillcar
markus..if it were any good, i wouldn't still have to 'pull one off' so often! keep your day job!
ryan

You mean, tickle Yoda behind the ears?

[bigchillcar]

lol..dan. as i recall..yoda was a little guy. what are you really trying to tell me??

[livi]

Well Ryan, maybe we ought to change the name of our 40+Club to 'Wankers Synonymous'.

[bigchillcar]

yeah! and actually, i recently became engaged, but we're trying to be good until the wedding..so your meaning still applies!
ryan

[svandamme]

Ryan ? you going for it? so eehm , i mean , you have remembered my advice right ? marry into a rich family , no more vegas show girls or strippers , right? learn from my mistakes ... it's my gift to the world...

[livi]

Congratulations !!!! Good for you, Ryan!

At least I hope it is - my own experience has been shall we say a tad precarious, as you know.

"...trying to be good until the wedding." - Whats that ? Some kind of local tradition ? Anyway, one canīt go wrong 'do the Yoda'.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by livi
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"...trying to be good until the wedding." - Whats that ? Some kind of local tradition ?

sounds more like he's got a case of premarital whippage
i've seen it before , it takes good friends to rescue the patient..

Ryan , i 've had good results with stag dues in Latvia, it's a basic plan of , lotta cheap eastblock booze, lotta cheap eastblock strippers, just don't take em home , mmmkay?

*me thinks this thread will soon be flogged to the OT

[bigchillcar]

[livi]

Right Stijn, back to the valves. I wonder what the numbers would be on a classic Ferrari forum. Or a ricer forum - but I suppose those are equipped with self adjusting valves. What wimps..

still...

...premarital whippage

[bigchillcar]

damn..transparent as hell..

[LakeCleElum]

After 40 years of tinkering with motorcycles, a 911 valve adjust was a walk in the park. Only trick is getting the lower gaskets just right so they don't leak.

[real550A]

Once you've mastered cam followers on an XK-E, 911 valves are, as Bob put it, "a walk in the park"!