I just adjusted my valves and I think I messed up ...

I followed the how to on c-speedracing.com website. I had no problems with the directions.
I followed them excatly. I did notice when doing the valve adjustment that most of the valves were off bad.

Most of them were so tight that I couldn't pass the feeler gauge thur. Then there was some that were super loose ... Only two valves were ok and didn't need adjustment.

Now my car had a pretty good tick. Bad enough to hear at idle when the car was fully warmed up.

Now my car sounds even louder than before the adjustments. I just can't understand what could have went wrong. I am able to read the directions just fine. Really this job is not that hard just takes a little time. I took my time and double checked everthing. All the valves followed the specs on the site. I double checked that. I made sure all the nuts were tight.

What could I have done?

Oh yea .. The car is running better. Sounds good when switching to vtec.. Car seems to run better than before.

Do I need to adjust them tighter.? I mean I am following what is supposed to be spec

"exhaust valves. Using the 0.007" "intake valves Using the 0.006"

What causes the valves to tick? ... Because, like I said when I was adjusting the valves most of them were tight as hell .... http://www.c-speedracing.com/h...t.php

 

were you rotating the motor correctly for each cylinder,when you were tightening the nuts did you make sure the screw wasn't moving out of spec.


Modified by sleeper96 at 11:34 AM 3/10/2005

 

your not supposed to tighten them super tight, just enough where you can barely slide the filler gauge thru, you did too tight!