I have been reading the forums on valve adjustment, I have two questions. A Porsche 914 shop manual I have has a picture of a valve adjustment tool (see below). I was wondering if this tool is still available through a vendor? It looks like it would work great in tight places plus you would not need three hands!
Has anyone had experience with this tool?
Also I climbed under my teener and looked at the valve covers. Not much room under there. I guess you can adjust the valve without removing the heat exchangers? The picture has some tin removed.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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..it's a pretty cool tool, I have that one or one similar to it. But, there is no room to use it unless the motor is on a engine stand.
Nothing needs to be removed except the valve cover.
A rag looped through the bail given a good solid yank will pop the bail off.
The valve cover slides out towards the rear of the car positioned so it holds oil...
Use a dime for the screw driver adjustment...it fits nicely.
It just takes some practice as you tighten things down to know where you need to use the wrench and what will happen to the adjuster when you snug up the nut...
Rich
Can you adjust the value up to aboot 100,000?
When you type CAT when you meant to type DOG, spell-check will not find it!
It's hard to adjust without removing the heat exchangers - for me. Pop them off and it's a 15 minute job. With them on an hour - for me.
Here's my tool (don't get excited now ). HF 95cent parts cleaning brush with the proper shims. It has the perfect angle to get the shim in to make the adjustment.
Happy adjusting
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Kool tools Bill. Looks loke they could also be used to clean out the gap between the second and third molars.
It's the angle of the dangle that makes this a great tool.
I use a deep-offset wrench for the jam nut, and a stubby flat-head screwdriver for the adjuster. Access is usually from in front of the suspension console, or forward along the top of the heat exchanger to the rear of the rocker box.
--DD
I came across one of these recently on the web never tried it but looks like it may work well.
http://www.theautopartsshop.com/12909.htm
Not nearly enough room for it with most of our valves.
--DD
There is no need to remove the heat exchanger
don't use the special measuring tool if it doesn't fit
a normal/cheap set of feeler guages will work
a box open wrench and stubby screw driver will work
I have brace bars on both sides, an auxillary rear oil cooler, plus all of the heating hardware (J tubes), and can still adjust my valvew without pulling the heat exchangers.
its done by feel
but much quicker than disassembling things
Thanks for all the feedback. It is greatly appreciated.
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