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Old 02-24-2015, 06:43 AM
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My Cam bearings showed up, got them installed, flipped the valve shim and im back in specs!!! .014!!! gotta love it!!! now that engine is running again i can stake the rivets on flexplate and hope machine gun sound goes away!!!
Then its on to the tower seal on the rack, its taken to leaking!! left a river of ps fluid that reaches the back doors!!!!
 
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At least you're in a warm place for working underneath a car. You fellow citizens in the northern states seem to have imported Russian weather !

Incidentally flipping over a tappet shim is a way of getting back to the right thickness, as the valve head wears a little crater in the shim over time.
 
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Originally Posted by Fraser Mitchell
At least you're in a warm place for working underneath a car. You fellow citizens in the northern states seem to have imported Russian weather !

Incidentally flipping over a tappet shim is a way of getting back to the right thickness, as the valve head wears a little crater in the shim over time.
ummm, you are one of my fellow citizens! lol Born and raised in Fulham! now i live in Florida and have a green card!!
I have been here a while though so my blood has thinned, now im cold when it drops to 50!!
 
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