Running solid lifters? How often do you adjust the lash?
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From: Baton Rouge LA
Running solid lifters? How often do you adjust the lash?
Just curious how often folks running solid lifters are adjusting valve lash. Things don't seem to be knocking too bad yet, though I've only owned the car a year and it's always sounded the way it does. A friend of mine said to do it every 6 months. Is it better to be proactive with them or wait until I notice a change in the sound of the engine. Am I worrying too much about nothing?
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From: 20,000 leagues under the sea
Originally Posted by norvalwilhelm
I set mine in the spring when I take the car out of storage and don't touch them until fall when I back the springs off.
Why should they move unless something is going wrong??
Why should they move unless something is going wrong??
I ran all last year on my initial setting. I checked them before I backed them off and nothing had changed at all. I was running the stock nuts. I changed to polylocks only because I got them for almost nothing.
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From: Forked River NJ
I adjust them in the spring. This is the first time in 3 years I have actually had some off. 6 of them were off .004 the rest were good. I check them maybe once in the summer and they are always dead on.
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From: Who says "Nothing is impossible" ? I've been doing nothing for years.
When you install a solid cam, especially when you get into the stuff with the little wheels on them you gotta check them frequently at first. Each engine is different but what usually happens is you will get some initial wear that will require adjustments. After a period of time/miles this should settle down ( or you have a more serious probelm ) to where you can adjust them a couple of times year.
A solid roller with roller rockers I would be checking more often than a solid flat tappet with stamped steel rockers.
A solid roller with roller rockers I would be checking more often than a solid flat tappet with stamped steel rockers.
