Valve Adjustment

I have a VS built in Dec 2009. I've it for 11 months and put only 700 miles on it...all easy driving. I live in northern California and will continue to deive it through the winter. I changed the oil in Oct at about 500 miles. Do I need to worry about checking the valves? John Muir's book puts a lot of emphasis on regular valve adjustments.

On a new engine, I usually check the valve adjustment between 500 and 1000 miles unless they are excessively noisy.

If the engine has chromoly steel pushrods and the lash was set at Zero on a stone cold engine I usually check the valves at 4 to 5 thousand miles after the initial adjustment. If you have aluminum pushrods then check about every 3,000 or 3,500 miles. Aluminum pushrods expand quicker than steel rods so the gas is usually .004 for the intake and .006 for the exhaust.

Check the knowledge section #206 for a detailed explanation on how to adjust your valves that I wrote about 5 or 6 years ago.

On a new engine, I usually check the valve adjustment between 500 and 1000 miles unless they are excessively noisy.

If the engine has chromoly steel pushrods and the lash was set at Zero on a stone cold engine I usually check the valves at 4 to 5 thousand miles after the initial adjustment. If you have aluminum pushrods then check about every 3,000 or 3,500 miles. Aluminum pushrods expand quicker than steel rods so the gas is usually .004 for the intake and .006 for the exhaust.

Check the knowledge section #206 for a detailed explanation on how to adjust your valves that I wrote about 5 or 6 years ago.

Mark Patty lives in Windsor and has a Porsche RS60 replica. He will be more than willing to help you. You'll find him here and on www.spyderclub.com On spyderclub.com he uses the screen name of
RS-60 mark

On this site, he uses Mark Patty
(rs-60mark)

Hey Paul. If you make it across the river let me know and we can go for a cruise.

Hey Tom.
I'm sure Paul could make it across the Colorado river OK, but it would still be a pretty long drive to Dearborn. ;-) I think he meant Windsor, California not Windsor, Ontario, which, coincidentally, is not where Larry lives either!

Thanks guys! Larry: Mark is a neighbor and good friend and got me started in all this. It took me a couple years of car envy to pull the trigger and buy the VS. Mark was my counselor all the way. Tom: I do live in Windsor CA, I'd love to visit, though.

Duh! More proof that only stupid people live where it's cold.

That takes care of Canada! :-) :-)
Ron

Mentally challenged, Ron. You guys in Canada are only slow 'cause your brains are frozen.

I resemble that remark!

But it really does get hot in Ottawa sometimes. I think that's the one I left on the table down near the lake !

Daniel, for many Canadians it's hard to freeze what they don't have.

Now if he did that in February, I be impressed. Why? Because he doesn't even have a windshield! Ok, no gloves and no goggles either.