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Okay guys let’s try this one again…yesterday I was driving along normally until I came to a complete stop at a light when the engine turned off on it’s own…it had no problem starting back up but I found I had to rev the engine a little, I drove a few meters and noticed that I wasn’t get much power out of the engine and there was a knocking sound coming from the engine..and every time I hit the clutch or brought the car to a stop the engine would shut off on it’s own and I would have to restart it..it did turn off while it was in gear and moving only when I hit the clutch or stopped completely. I got home and turned it off for about five min and restarted it, this time it did not immediately cut off but cut off after I tried putting it in gear as it did before..I did some research and with the help of some great guys on this site I figured out I had to adjust the valves which I tried to do on my own and shortly after that the car would not start at all..so I came back on here and got the proper directions on what to do..I adjusted the valves and the timing is great now it starts fine and runs a little better than before no stalling or engine cutting off, the only problem now is that I still hear the knocking noise coming from the engine..I did however notice that on the site that you guys gave me it said to use 0.18mm - 0.27mm feeler gauges…but unfortunately I did not have any and went to parts source to buy a set of feeler gauges and the costumer service rep gave me a set of power built gauges…heres where I think I might have gone wrong because the feeler gauge that I used (got from parts source) for the intake says {SAE: .008 .203 MM} and for the exhaust valves I used the {SAE:.10 .254MM} this is what the idiot at parts source said I should be using but if I was supposed to use the .18mm and .27mm feeler gauges this might explain why I am still getting the knocking…I just drove the car around the block and back hopefully I didn’t bend any rods or anything….well that’s my story please let me know what you think , so if I should take back the feeler gauges I bought today and get another set and try the whole thing over again to see if it’s any better..thanks