i was doing valve adjustment on my car today, stock cams, .006 intake and .007 exhaust and on cylinder #4, exhaust side, distributer side stud adjusts, but the guages dont fit. I tried turning it all the way left and right, it seems to have the same clearence. I can push the valve down to make it fit but that doesnt do any good.

Why doesnt it adjust?


Modified by milano2kdc2 at 5:01 AM 5/18/2005

 

Don't mean to make you sound like a idiot but you do know you adjust the stud that's on the rocker arm and not the actually nut. The nut is to tighten the stud down to the position you want the clearence it needs to be.

If that's not the case then maybe the stud's thread is stripped on the rocker arm.

 

yes i meant the stud, not the nut. sorry for the confusion, and i can see the stud going up and down when im adjusting it

 

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it doesn't get any tighter then?

 

i guess it was just a one time thing, cause the problem seemed to have fixed itself, i drove it around for a bit, waited a few hours and tried again, and it adjusted normally

thx lord helmet for the help

 

not a problem, that's what HT is here for