Valve Lash ... I did it !!
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RE: Valve Lash ... I did it !!
I just finished doing mine. I have 90k miles and I only found one intake valve that seemed to be too tight so it was the only one I adjusted. I didn't think I had any loose valves because my truck is pretty quiet, no valve noise, but I thought it was time to at least check. Took me about 1.5 hours, but I had never done this before.
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RE: Valve Lash ... I did it !!
I didn't have any that were too tight, but most I could easily swipe the 0.012 feeler through, so I adjusted them.
The one thing that I didn't realize was that you had to kinda pull up that little chrome thing that you slide the feeler under. That threw me for a loop for a minute. I didn't realize that it wiggled side to side.
The one thing that I didn't realize was that you had to kinda pull up that little chrome thing that you slide the feeler under. That threw me for a loop for a minute. I didn't realize that it wiggled side to side.
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RE: Valve Lash ... I did it !!
Yea, it took me a while to get the feel for it too. My thickest guage was .025 so I couldn't test the exhaust valves up to .030, but I also couldn't get the .025 to fit into any of them, so I figured they were okay. I had one intake valve that I couldn't get the .006 into so I went ahead and adjusted it. After I was finished I couldn't find my allen wrench and I almost had to take everything back apart because I thought I had left it under the valve cover. I found it just as I started the disassembly process and that was a relief.
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