DIY job gone wrong
Road Warrior
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OK lets try this again, how do you tell what cycle is the compression cycle by just using your finger over the sparkplug hole and the push rods are NOT installed. Every up cycle is going to feel the same when the valves are not opening and closing.
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True and that is the way to do it, several members were saying they just use there finger over the sparkplug hole to find the compression stroke. I am asking them how they fo that with no push rods installed. Can't seem to get a straight answer out of them.
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Read this again, wonkey. If you use this method to adjust your valves you don't need to worry about finding TDC on a compression stroke, because the cam lobe will be in the correct position to adjust the respective pushrod. There's no reason to add difficulty to a simple job.
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Road Warrior
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Read this again, wonkey. If you use this method to adjust your valves you don't need to worry about finding TDC on a compression stroke, because the cam lobe will be in the correct position to adjust the respective pushrod. There's no reason to add difficulty to a simple job.
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If you watch the intake lifter on the cylinder your adjusting while turning the engine, watch it come up, then when it goes all the way back down, the piston is on the way up on the compression stroke, turn engine a little more, the piston will be real close to TDC on the compression stroke.
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Forget about the finger on the hole.
No pushrods, no problem, I said look at the lifters,
comprendere?
No pushrods, no problem, I said look at the lifters,
comprendere?
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