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stupid boy and valve clearances

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:14 pm
by bees
Spent 2 hours adjusting valve clearances on my 3rd gen and when id finished the last one thought, hmmm... they were all miles out...

Then checked if the feeler gauge i was using were metric... opps! Just as well i didnt start it. Now to do it all over again! :lol:

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:31 pm
by 4thgenphil
:lol: easy done, least you realised!

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:03 pm
by laner84
Whooops, been there and done that man at least you realised :P

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:19 pm
by bees
If id not realised, put it all together (doing cambelt, oil, collant, exhaust as well) and it sounded like a drum with nails in it I would be properly pissed :evil: with myself!

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:10 pm
by JEBB4
Haha I did this on my white one... But I'm embarrassed to say I did them right using my brothers feelers the first time, then thought there was a noisey one so re did them with my own brand new angled feelers (which were all metric :x ), drove the car obviously new they wernt right but re did them another 3 times!! :oops: :lol: :? Then finally my boss bought some feelers for a job in work which is when I realised the massive errors and did them correctly....

Needles to say I can do tappits on a h23a1 in about 10 mins now :lol: