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I have just adjusted the valves twice on this car twice and both times when you first turn it on after adjustment, it sounds great like a new car and drives great. The car continues that and has no issues after even warming up but I have noticed that after warming up, it sounds like a rocker arm that has gone out and it was not as audible before I adjusted the valves so I am curious if adjusting them to speck would make it more audible or if it is a valve that didn’t get adjusted right?
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[quote=”college man” post=169273]It could be a valve that did not get adjusted enough.[/quote]
yea after further researching the problem here online I came to the conclusion that a nut was not properly tightened most likely. I had my master mechanic I studied under for a year and a half with me when I did it jus to have him check the gap on each valve and he said they were good the way I had them. We turned on the vehicle and it sounded great but after running it a little bit, the noise started happening and has not gone away since. I thought maybe just maybe but highly doubtful that the ecu had not accounted for it being back to factory spec but it just doesn’t make sense to me at this point. thank you for your response 🙂Actually I’m at a loss. I adjusted them this morning triple checking them and making sure everything was where it was supposed to be. I ran the car and it starts to over heat a little bit. I have it parked at work as when I first started driving it, it didn’t have any knocking or anything like before. Now before I turned it off you could hear the knocking again but it was not as audible as before. All of the valves are to spec. it is .20 for intake and .25 exhaust. the feeler gauges are .207 and .253 mm. They have the same thickness and feel as if you took oil on your fingers and pinched the feeler gauge. It feels smooth so why would it be giving me these issues? Is there another size I should be doing?
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