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Re: Haynes manuals and valve adjustments

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Subject: Re: Haynes manuals and valve adjustments
From: Martin_A._Secrest@NEB.VOA.GOV
Date: 15 Nov 96 9:17:08
The Haynes manual is the only one I have used for my 1974 Spitfire, and I agree 
-- I do not like it much either.  For many procedures, it is perfectly 
adequate, but it seems that for the more unusual or difficult repairs, it 
becomes increasingly less informative.   

For example, my Haynes manual doesnšt adequately explain how to do ...  a valve 
adjustment.   Knowing that the adjustment is critical, my question about it is 
this -- for reference, how do you know when a given valve is fully open or 
closed?  Is the TDC mark somehow a reference?  While turning the engine over by 
hand, it isnšt obvious to me at exactly what point to stop to check a valvešs 
clearance.  What say ye, oh great Orb de Triumph?

Martin Secrest
D.C./VA
1974 Spitfire
1939 Brick Colonial
1926 Parents   

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