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Date:         Sat, 23 Jun 2001 08:21:30 -0500
Reply-To:     wilden1@JUNO.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Valve setting Type IV engines.
Comments: To: accessys@smart.net
Comments: cc: crangus@rof.net, john@aircooled.net, Wolfvan88@aol.com,
          ype2@type2.com
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I'm hoping I'm reaching all those who have shown an interest in the subject of valve settings for TypeIV 2000cc Air cooled engines. On Thursday I made an uneventful trip of approximately 200 miles at 50 -55 MPH and about 2000 RPMs on country and Farm to Market roads South of Dallas Texas. The valve setting at this time was two turns as recommended by the Bentley and Hayes manuals. Overall performance was good with no detonation. The spark plugs looked good and were clean with little coloration change to measure. On Friday I made another uneventful trip of approximately 200 miles at 50-55 MPH and about 2000RPM's with a valve setting of 3/4 turn as recommended by John Connolly. The engine ran fine but I had head winds of 15-20 MPH and gusting winds so any difference in the performance was masked by the adverse conditions. With 432 Miles on the engine the oil is just barely reaching a color that can be seen on the dipstick (oil was changed after 20 minute run-in at 2000RPM recommended by Steve Blackham who himself just finished building a similar engine to run at 3500 to 4500 feet altitude.) I'm going to stick with the 3/4 turn adjustment for the duration of my thousand mile under 50MPH break in period and forego those long boring Farm to Market road trips where I spend 50% of my time driving on the shoulder of the road allowing tailgaters to pass. A message to tailgaters from Stan Wilder "If you can't exhibit enough self control to abide by the speed limit; why should we trust you with a gun!" I invite your comments and hopefully I'll have answered my own questions through trying a variety of valve settings that others have had success with. My goal in this is simply to have a long life engine; I'm willing to sacrifice some performance to run cooler, run longer and operate trouble-free for an extended period of time. Since Texas is mostly flat and mostly at an elevation of 35 feet to 230 feet above sea level I'm probably running in ideal conditions most of the year with the exceptions when the temperature is over a hundred degrees for weeks at a time (41 Days last year). Thanks to all who have offered information, experience and good commonsense advise.

Stan Wilder 83 Air cooled Westfalia

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:03:06 -0400 (EDT) Access Systems <accessys@smart.net> writes: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 wilden1@juno.com wrote: > > glad you got her running > > > > I'm currently working on valve settings and getting a wide variety > of > > responses. > > ------------------ > > RE: I had nothing but problem with the "recommended" 1 3/4-2 turn > method. > > I ran > > 3/4 turn in and never a problem. John ..Aircooled.Net Inc. > > ------------------ > > what kind of problems are you having?? I use 1.5 turns myself > > Bob > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign accessBob > .-. > \ / NO HTML/PDF in e-mail accessys@smartnospam.net > /v\ > X NO MSWord docs in e-mail Access Systems, engineers > // \\ > / \ NO attachments in e-mail equal access is a civil right > /( _ )\ > > ^^ ^^ > >


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