Followed Pacer and Andy's advice for this job that I was dreading tonight.pacerpete wrote:capri_rob wrote:What do you set the inlets to ?Andyboy wrote:If it's still idling a bit roughly, set the exhausts to 12 thou cold.
12 thou inlet and exhaust cold works best. Setting tappets on a bench is a waste of time. Tight tappets cause all sorts of running issues.
Only ever done this once before on the bronze turd and afterwards I couldn't notice any difference.
However today I thought I'd have a crack at it.
Set them both to 12 thou stone cold as advised and what a difference !
It now idles perfectly
They all seemed very tight but having now adjusted them following the guide in the wiki it is super smooth, no drop off in power at all and most importantly the atrocious lumpy idle is no more
As per usual though I did manage to make one balls up
and managed to round off number 3 spark plug. Got all the others out ok. Any tips to get it out ? A better quality plug spanner might do it but if not is it likely to come out easier with the engine warm ?The other 5 plugs all looked good.
been putting it off for a while now.
