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I like the idea of rocking the rocker to make sure that you didn't close the valve gap.
I was planning on changing my oil soon, and thought I'd plan on checking the valves and changing my CHT sensor, which I suspect is bad (rough idle).
Some questions before I attempt the backside method:
(1) How long do the feeler gauges have to be? Is the 12" long one the optimal length, because I have no idea where to find those.
(2) Do you still check the cylinders in the 1-6-2-4-3-5 order ( I know, some people use a different order by rotating the engine 240 deg etc etc etc) - the point being that other than checking the valve gap differently everything else is the same?
(3) Let's say you find one of the gaps is off, you don't find it useful to use the traditional crows foot tool at all? Wouldn't you need to put the traditional tool in the gap before turning the adjuster screw in order to adjust the clearance correctly?
(4) In other words, is the backside method a useful adjuct to the traditional method. A quick check, before moving to the next cylinder in other words?
Thanks.
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