[Healeys] Valve adjustment

[simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk]

Hi,

Well it’s a tricky one as opinions differ so. The guy who tuned my car on a rolling road and set up the Webers opted for 0.016, warm. Also 15° at idle, 0.028 plug gap. The last one surprised me as I’d been sure it should be quite a lot bigger, the car having a 123 and sports coil. Mind you, it runs OK, so who knows?

The guy’s been tuning forever and did it in concert with his father who goes back even further, so I’ve faith in their advice.

Simon

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: 13 February 2018 19:28
To: richard mayor <boyracer466 at gmail.com>; Healey List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Valve adjustment

 

Yes, and original post said .12 or .15 .    So .12 is pretty close to .125 or 1/8. inch.  See below.

Just wanted to point out the error so someone doesn't come across the original post and think it is correct.    Errors propagated around enough become myths or even "facts".    

Bob

 

On 2/13/2018 1:25 PM, richard mayor wrote: 

1/8th inch is  .120,  not .012

 

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Bob <robertlarson at att.net <mailto:robertlarson at att.net> > wrote:

I do not have a BJ8 or any 3000 series manual to look it up but below does not seem right.  

Should the clearance be .012 or .015 not the .12 and .15 given below?

I think around an 1/8 inch would be pretty noisy,.....  

Bob

55BN1   (4 less to adjust)

 

On 2/12/2018 7:31 PM, BJ8Healeys wrote: 

Adjusting them cold is much easier on the fingers.

 

Steve Byers

HBJ8L/36666

BJ8 Registry

AHCA Delegate at Large

Havelock, NC  

 

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Fred Wescoe
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 5:08 PM
To: healeys
Subject: [Healeys] Valve adjustment

 

Listers,

 

I am trying to adjust the valves on my 66 BJ8.  The valve cover states to adjust the valves to .12 with the engine hot.  This is what I have always done.

 

I now discover the manual states to adjust the valves to .12 with the engine cold.  I have never done the cold adjustment.

 

The manual also states to adjust the valves to .15 for competition with the engine cold.  

 

As usual, I bow to the wisdom of the list.  TIA.

 

Fred,

66 BJ8

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/healeys/attachments/20180213/2c9a4b48/attachment.html>