3/1000"

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#1 3/1000"

Post by abowie » Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:43 am

..is the difference between a tappet that you can hear driving at 60mph and blessed silence.

During some recent work on my S1.5 I checked and re-shimmed the tappets. #5 inlet was at 7 thou. Corrected it to 4 thou and problem solved.
Andrew.
881824, 1E21538. 889457. 1961 4.3l Mk2. 1975 XJS. 1962 MGB. 1979 MGB.
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#2 Re: 3/1000"

Post by David Oslo » Sun Jul 10, 2016 3:39 pm

Don't tell me that !!

Now I have to check all my buckets. Maybe I'll just delay until the short summer is over, nice job for the autumn (in 2 weeks :bigrin: )
David
S1 2+2 '67 MOD conversion (going)
S2 OTS '70 (arriving)

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