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Subject: Fw: [oletrucks] adjusting valves-cold
From: "Pat Cossey" <ccossey@seark.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:06:29 -0500
Pat   67 SS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Cossey" <ccossey@seark.net>
To: "Rob & Margie J." <rjjmsj@charter.net>;
<old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com>; "_Oletrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] adjusting valves-cold


> Now you can take this any way you want BUT back in the day, i used a
hacksaw
> blade to set the valves on a hot eng. worked for Me.!!
>
> Pat   67 SS
> (never burnt a valve)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob & Margie J." <rjjmsj@charter.net>
> To: <old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com>; "_Oletrucks"
> <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:39 PM
> Subject: [oletrucks] adjusting valves-cold
>
>
> > I have the details on setting the valves (ie. the order and which to do
at
> > which time), so I know more or less HOW to do it, but everything I've
> found
> > only gives the "hot" settings.  .008/.018.  The manual says that the
cold
> > settings can vary as much as .005", and since I am trying to get in the
> > "ballpark" with a cold engine, how do I get in that ballpark?  I assume
I
> want
> > my valves a bit too loose, rather than a bit too tight, so that I can
get
> it
> > hot, and then set them to the final setting...so, what would be the
right
> > setting to start with?  Tighter or looser than the hot settings?  Seems
> looser
> > is the right answer, as when everything heats up, the metal should all
> expand,
> > thereby reducing the gap...but just HOW much is too loose, and how much
is
> not
> > loose enough?
> >
> > Rob
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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