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RE: [oletrucks] adjusting valves-cold

To: "'Hanlon, Bill'" <Bill.Hanlon@COMPAQ.com>,
Subject: RE: [oletrucks] adjusting valves-cold
From: "Brian J Luebke" <luebkeb@zibsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:00:11 -0500
which works better, setting the valves on a hot or cold engine?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Hanlon, Bill
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 6:43 AM
> To: Pat Cossey; Rob & Margie J.; old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com;
> _Oletrucks
> Subject: RE: [oletrucks] adjusting valves-cold
> 
> 
> How many teeth per inch on the blade?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Cossey [mailto:ccossey@seark.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:05 PM
> To: Rob & Margie J.; old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com; _Oletrucks
> 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
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 
> 1941 and 1959
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 
> 1941 and 1959
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