[T3] Hothe's numbers

Keith Park topnotch at nycap.rr.com
Mon Jul 2 20:00:35 PDT 2012


I find sometimes things loosen up a bit, I occationally find a valve at
,.007 or .008, maybe its different temps but the cam in this engine has over
150K on it as it was in the previous builds, I know its worn, I can see it
up in there when I drop the sump plate and it did go thru some time with
less ZDDP before we knew that it had been taken out.

Keith


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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Jim Adney
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 10:49 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Hothe's numbers

On 2 Jul 2012 at 22:30, Keith Park wrote:

> Valves were nearly spot on after all those miles, only 2 had loosened
> to .007 so 

Normal valve/head wear will make the valves tighten up, as mine did. 
If things are loosening, that's cam/lifter wear, which is abnormal.

Or maybe this is just the tolerance on your settings before the trip, 
possibly caused by doing the "cold" adjustment at somewhat different 
temps.

Let's hope for the latter.


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