Hi just a couple of brief questions.
When adjusting or checking the clearances of the tappets on a Discovery 300 Tdi, should the engine be warm/hot or cold?
Second question, is the recommended gap .020mm on both inlet and exhaust valves?
I have serviced the engine before, oil, filters, et al, but never done the tappets, so it's new territory for me.....
Thanks in advance for any help....
On or around Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:59:57 +0200, "ivan poulsen" enlightened us thusly:
in an emergency and strictly short-term, you can adjust a rocker with a missing cap so that it bears on the valve. This is better than having it much too loose.
but replace the cap ASAP, it's doubtless there for a reason.
Thanks to all who replied I have checked on the feeler gauges, they are imperial / metric type, so the closest I could get to the required .20, was .206 which I hope will be fine, I also replaced all of the valve cover caps because 1 had worn totally away. Everything seems fine at the moment, well it started and ran ok and the obliglitory puff of smoke at start-up was absent, which I hope is a good sign.
Anyway thanks again.
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