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Re: gspd's valve adjustment techique
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:41 am
by StephenB
StephenB wrote:mattcfish wrote:Gotta make that Allen screw conversion some day.
Matt, you got a (local) source for those screws?
Found it: Motoren Israel, EUR69 for the set ... ouch.
Re: gspd's valve adjustment techique
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:17 pm
by enigmaT120
Major Softie wrote:mattcfish wrote:Is it really such a hassle to use a feeler gauge? The hardest part is removing those two tiny nuts.
Gotta make that Allen screw conversion some day.
You remove your nuts to do a valve adjustment?
Low hanging fruit, Major.
I can't believe it took me two days to come up with that one.
Re: gspd's valve adjustment techique
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:17 pm
by Ken in Oklahoma
enigmaT120 wrote:Low hanging fruit, Major.
I can't believe it took me two days to come up with that one.
I'm impressed enigma: a cute quip, just casually thrown out there while discussing an earlier quip. A cute quip delicately targeted just below a full blown wiseass quip.
Accuracy and timing. I'd like to have a another helping or two of both for myself.
And then as a bonus you pull it off without visibly gloating.
Ken
Re: gspd's valve adjustment techique
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:23 pm
by mattcfish
StephenB wrote:mattcfish wrote:Gotta make that Allen screw conversion some day.
Matt, you got a (local) source for those screws?
Is there something special about the screws used in the conversion?
I thought the only challenge was machining the valve covers and tapping the head.
http://www.siebenrock.com/en/products/t ... 12245.html