To everyone talking about stupid mistakes you've made working on cars... I'm in the club for sure now.
Oh brother I feel like an idiot about this, but... Someone signed my guestbook and told me I did the valve adjustment on my motorcycle wrong because I confused inches and milimeters. I looked in the Clymer manual and it says for exhaust I should have a gap in the range: .12-.17mm (0.0047-0.0067 inches) I just looked at my feeler gauge set. Each feeler gauge has 2 measurements on it. They range from: "006 152mm" up to "020 508mm" I thought that was 6 thousandths of an inch up to 20 thousands of an inch and from 152 mm to 508 mm. When I look online I see a conversion factor that says 1 mm = 0.03937 inch So if I do the math on one of my feelers like the first one "006
152mm"..... 152 * .03937 = 5.984 or roughly 6. But that's off by an order of magnitude of 1000...so 152 must not be 152 mm. It must be .152 mm, right? I think that's right.... If it is, I believe I used the "inches" number on my feeler gauges when I adjusted the valves on the motorcycle... I set the exhaust to .007" which is ~.178m. Just a little bit out of spec, on the loose side but not too bad. I set the intake to .012" which is .305 mm, and the loosest they should be is .17m. EEK! Looks like I'll be doing a valve adjustment on my motorcycle this weekend. I've ridden it probably 2000 miles with this adjustment. That sucks.-- Travis '63 VW Camo Baja...