Valve clearance, new method ?

[Spout]

"Don't muck about removing the front cover to find TDC, remove the rocker cover and spark plug, stick a long screwdriver in the plug hole and tap the starter button until the screwdriver is pushed out to TDC... you can feel it"

I use a pencil - less likely to do any damage if trapped by a valve.
And turn by hand of course.

 

[Steptoe]

This is how i've showed the GSers at the two maintenance workshops that we've run - but put it in gear and turn it by hand, instead of pressing the starter -

On the compression stroke of course -

 

[adamski49]

Which avoids having fuel pumped into the chamber and a big spark from the plug lead

That'll be why the plug lead was tucked up out of the way then

The starter seems the easier option when you don't have a centre stand.

Adam

 

[Tsiklonaut]

Well, i really don't understant what "new method" the theme up is with. Not much variables to play with on valve adjust.

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

i was taught to imagine the feeler guage trapped in a phone book

i tried it but i can't imagine it at all.

Is it like a trap that it can't get out of ?

Are there things after it trying to kill it ?

Is it like Doom ? He was trapped somewhere.

Whats this got to do with valves ?

 

[unhinged]

Is it like Doom ? He was trapped somewhere.

I think he'd crashed his space ship on a planet he was attacking. It happens a lot, Quake 1, 2, 3 and Doom 2 I think. I think they stopped using spaceships by Doom 3 due to the previous disasters.

 

[cookie]

valve adjustment on space craft is completely different





probably

 

[Keith Chapman]

The manual said tap it. So I hit it with a hammer, it made no difference so I hit it harder

 

[cookie]

The manual said tap it. So I hit it with a hammer, it made no difference so I hit it harder

see my ad for a new tank

 

[Sleepy]

Oh dear, more dis-information.

We're waiting........