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16th May 2011, 03:20 PM
#21
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Originally Posted by
patch697
Adjustment should be made while engine is warm but not running
This made me smile. They're hard enough to get to at the best of times, hate to think how it would be to adjust them with the engine still running :-)
1989 GQ LWB Wagon, TB42 Petrol/LPG Auto. Bought Dec 2010
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16th May 2011 03:20 PM
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16th May 2011, 05:31 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by
ripper
This made me smile. They're hard enough to get to at the best of times, hate to think how it would be to adjust them with the engine still running :-)
I saw a bloke doing that with a 6 cyl holden when I was a kid. Oil squirting here and there :-)
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17th May 2011, 12:07 AM
#23
Expert
Originally Posted by
Silver
I saw a bloke doing that with a 6 cyl holden when I was a kid. Oil squirting here and there :-)
I thought Holden engines all had hydraulic lifters? ie: no rocker adjusting?
Obviously he had no idea :-)
1989 GQ LWB Wagon, TB42 Petrol/LPG Auto. Bought Dec 2010
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17th May 2011, 08:36 AM
#24
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Originally Posted by
ripper
I thought Holden engines all had hydraulic lifters? ie: no rocker adjusting?
Obviously he had no idea :-)
It was 35 - 40 years ago - perhaps it was a Ford? Can't remember, but I do remember it was tappets, the engine was running and supplying oil to the rockers.
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17th May 2011, 07:00 PM
#25
Expert
Originally Posted by
Silver
the engine was running and supplying oil to the rockers.
and also oil to the mechanic. HAHAHA
1989 GQ LWB Wagon, TB42 Petrol/LPG Auto. Bought Dec 2010
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17th May 2011, 07:13 PM
#26
Patrol Freak
Not so strange to do them running if they are hydraulic. When I had V8 Chevrolet engines in drag cars, I used sold lifters with roller rockers, and we used to set the tappet clearances with the engine running. I had a couple of stock rocker covers with the tops cut off and the edges ground smooth. Still splashed a bit of oil but it worked well. Most of the experienced Holden mechanics I knew set the 6 cylinder hydraulics while they were running, backing each one off until noisy, then down until the noise stopped, then 1/4 turn at a time until I think it was half a turn after noise stopped.
Last edited by fixer982; 17th May 2011 at 07:14 PM.
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18th May 2011, 03:17 PM
#27
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Originally Posted by
fixer982
Not so strange to do them running if they are hydraulic.
Thanks fixer, never heard of that, but never worked with solid lifters or roller rockers either.
1989 GQ LWB Wagon, TB42 Petrol/LPG Auto. Bought Dec 2010
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19th November 2011, 08:47 PM
#28
Rotaredom
Adjusted mine and my old mans tappets 2day......... what a sh!tty little job that is, spend more time taking crap off the cover than you do actually adjusting the tappets! Got 2 love over paid engineers.
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27th February 2012, 04:44 AM
#29
thanks for the information it is so useful
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27th February 2012, 04:34 PM
#30
thanks for this tread ive never done mine but maybe will have to check mine now i know how to do it thanks
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