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Subject:Re: Adjusting Valves 78 Air Cooled
From:David Brodbeck
Date:Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:02:00 -0500

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Stan Wilder wrote:

> Subject: 1987 Bay, with type IV air-cooled FI engine, solid lifters.
> Question: Valve setting .006 do these things ever get real quiet or
> should I always hear some chatter?

Mine always clattered.  They may get a little quieter as the engine warms
up, but they'll never get entirely silent.  If they do they're too tight.
;)  It's the nature of solid lifters

BTW, I thought the spec for engines with sodium-filled exhaust valves was
0.006 intake, 0.008 exhaust?

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