i need to adjust my valves on my 90 crxsi, and i printed the page out from the helms download for the valve adjustment procedure, and it has a picture of where you put the feeler gage, but its kind of a small picture, and since this is my first time doing this, i just needed to confirm where i put the feeler gage is in the right place.

to me it looks like you insert the flat part of the feeler gage ontop of the valve spring, then unlock the nut, and tighten flat head screw until it barely touches the feeler gage, but just needed someone to confirm what i am about to do is right, so i don't mess my engine up, lol, so if anyone can explain in detail i would appreciate.

and one other thing i wanted to know, in my haynes manual, it says to disable the ignition system by detaching the coil wire from the center terminal of the distributor cap & grounding on the block with jumper wire,................what is "jumper wire", and where is the center coil wire exactly? ..........i just need to make sure i am doing this right, thanks if you have any info.

 

Between the top of the valve stem and the rocker arm

 

theres really only one place stick it

remove all spark plugs

get a 17mm socket on ur crank and turn it till your at TDC cylinder 1

best way is to stick something down the actually spark plug hole and watch it as it rises to its peak

once at TDC you begine the vavle adj

start with the intake vavles

losen the 10mm nut on top of the rocker arm then with a flat head screw driver loosen the screw

insert the feeler gauge into this space and tighen down the screw until you feel some drag

not light but not to the point where you cant move it

tighten the 10mm bolt to hold the screw in place

after doing this see if you can insert the feeling back into where you just adjust you should still feel the same amount of drag if not repear the process

once youve adjust intake side ..move to the exhaust side...same proceedure

once done with cylinder one place the object to find TDC into cylinder #3

turn the crank until you see it reach TDC on 3 and do the same process

next to cylinder 4 then finally 2

once complete you should be able to stick the feeler gauge inbetween the rocker and retainer ..still having that slight drag

That should be it

 

i figured it was kind of right, but the reason i was double checking was cause i was amazed the gap was so big, i mean it looked like a little over 1/4" of a gap between the top of the valve stem(spring) and the bottom side of the rocker arm!, is this normal? or is it because i have'nt had it done for a couple years?

the other reason i was asking this to make sure is because the feeler gauge seemed kind of small, i followed the specs for (.007-.009) etc... in the helms manual, and still it seemed kind of small to me, the feeler edge for that size looked as flat as a knife edge, and just wanted to make sure this was right, before i go ahead and start tightening that 1/4" gap down towards the feeler edge.

 

i usually gap in the middle one .008 and do it really tight so when I insert .007 then this would be the slight drag they want...and even if it isnt its still within spec