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Need Advice On The Results Of My First Valve Job
Old 04-11-2005, 09:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Need Advice On The Results Of My First Valve Job

Well I finally did my valves myself and I have some questions about it.

Heres what I did. I couldn't get the dowel pin in to find tdc #1 so I used the companion method. I turned the engine by the alternator nut until one valve on the number six was going up and then the other started to go down at the same time. I then checked the appropriate valves with a feeler gauge. what i found was that most, but not all of the intake valves were to tight and most of the exhaust valves were to loose. Does this sound right or did I not rotate the engine far enough? At first this is what i figured but like i said one of them was too loose so i went ahead and adjusted them. Then i rotated the engine till the #1 was at crossover and did the same thing with the same results. does this sound right or am i way off here. It has been 90000 miles since my last adjustment. when I say loose i'm only talking .002 to .003 over spec. How close does it need to be. Even the ones that i adjusted are only with in .001 or so. It was very hard to get them exactly on the money without them moving just a hair when tightening the backup nut.
Did I screw up? Do I need to go back and do a better job or what? Thanks for all your help and experience, its hard to get a good feel for it without someones experienced to tell me if its right or not.
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