I dont know how to adujust my valves to my cam i dont know how fare it should be set i bought the car off this guy and it ran awesome and my buddy hes a machnic and hes like adjust them now its worse then what it was when we started dose anyone know how fare arapt

 

Why did you mess with what wasn't broken?

 

Your buddy ain't to great of a mechanic is he?

 

see im new to the whole car deal like i know a little.. so im a noob i guess u could call me lol but i bought the car its fully build sohc D16a6 and hes all into honda so i thought he knew what he was doing hes like it sounds like u need a valve adjustment and thats where my trouble strated dose anyone know how fare im to adjust them

 

roughly .007 for most hondas idk if the cam changes anything or not but thats wat stock specs are o and please tell me the guy was at least using feeler gauges?

 

yea we did he said 40 thousands or omething ?

 

yea if he said 40 thousandths for a valve adjustment he needs to be no where near a car

 

bump

 

Go pick up a hayne's/helms manual for YOUR car. Should tell you step by step on how to do it.

I put a set of 95' GSR cams in my b16a, first cam swap I did. I used a haynes manual for a dc2 integra and adjusted the intake valves to around 6 thousandths of an inch and the exhaust to around 7 thousandths of an inch. Car runs good and no tappy..other than the lmas...

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING! Talk to the people at the ZEX company and ask them for the valve lash clearance using that cam on your engine. I would use stock specs...but you never know
Good luck

 

BUMP some help me out its my Daily Driver!!

 

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BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING! Talk to the people at the ZEX company and ask them for the valve lash clearance using that cam on your engine. I would use stock specs...but you never know
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what else do you need OP? adjust your valves correctly and don't let your "friend" near your car again.

 

well i did a compersion test and there all good but 1 BOO any one know of some good vaslves?

 

there are nothing wrong with the valves in your car y dont u just them right apparently they were working before this @ss clown of a mechanic screw the up so set them to spec (what ever zex says to set them to) and be done with it and stop asking question after question about wat u r supposed to do. Valves are a lot harder to replace than to just adjust the ones that are in there now.

 

I seriously thought you were here for some help..you arent even making sense anymore. Seriously...you cant be joking.

 

I have a 59300 cam too the specs are on the box it came in or you can look it up on line. Just google it I don't remember what they where but they were slightly different than the factory cam specs

 

i called zex its .007 intake and .009 Exhaust

 

well i adjusted them to the specs.. and now its taping i took it to a local shop they told me they need re adjusted but they dont have to tools to do it and its snowing like crazy here so i cant go out side and play with it but im hopeing to take it to blair honda tomarrow i hope it gets fixed cuz shes my DD If anyone has any ideas of what the taping noise could be i thought bent valves but i duno

 

how can they not have the tools to do it they consist of a screwdriver, a wrench and a rachet???

 

and the feeler guages. cant forget those, they're SUPER RARE

 

What mechanic / shop doesn't know or have the tools to do a valve adjustment? You need a new mechanics and a new shop first.

Adjust them to stock specs. SOHC are a bit trickier to get right and make sure you follow a honda manual on how the feeler gauge should slide in and out and what not.

Oh, and SOHC from honda always tick a little I find. If one of your cylinders is low don't assume its a valve, do a leak down test and actually find out whats wrong cause it could be a HG or rings too.

 

Thanks for all the help if anyone has any more idea i wouldnt mind listning lol

 

Did you make sure the engine was cold before you did the adjustment? You can't do a proper adjustment unless the engine is completely cold.