On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Stan Wilder wrote: > Subject: 1987 Bay, with type IV air-cooled FI engine, solid lifters. > Question: Valve setting .006 do these things ever get real quiet or > should I always hear some chatter? Mine always clattered. They may get a little quieter as the engine warms up, but they'll never get entirely silent. If they do they're too tight. ;) It's the nature of solid lifters BTW, I thought the spec for engines with sodium-filled exhaust valves was 0.006 intake, 0.008 exhaust? _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the |___/ pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be." |
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