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Date:         Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:44:09 -0400
Reply-To:     tabe johnson <xtabe@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         tabe johnson <xtabe@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Hydraulic Lifter Week
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I think lifters are a timely subject because they haven't been covered super well, at least in the past five years of archive searching I've done. Dennis Haynes (as usual) posted a good procedure in April of 2005 but it assumes you can find zero clearance. (see below)

With solid lifters, it's pretty clear where you are because nothing moves. If you are looking for zero clearance, you just wiggle the rocker back and forth while slowly tightening the adjusting screw. When the rocker stops moving, that's zero clearance. Duh, right?

The problem with the lifters that I've been trying to adjust (and maybe they're worn) is that the springs in the lifters are so weak that when you wiggle the rocker back and forth it is very easy to compress the lifter spring slightly. I am unable to reliably say where zero clearance is because of this. The lifters don't feel hard, but springy.

Any ideas, anyone?

I was planning on driving it around for a while. Being paranoid, I'm afraid they may be adjusted too tight and I'll burn a valve!

tabe johnson/87 westy/vancouver bc/xtabe@yahoo.com

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