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Thomas Högberg Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 61 Vårgårda, Sweden Gender:	Valve clearance, hot or cold engine? 07/21/16 at 10:43:24 Hi searched but not found, hot or cold engine when I set the valve clearance?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28903 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Valve clearance, hot or cold engine? Reply #1 - 07/21/16 at 10:55:09 Always done on a cold engine.
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Thomas Högberg Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 61 Vårgårda, Sweden Gender:	Re: Valve clearance, hot or cold engine? Reply #2 - 07/21/16 at 11:14:52 Thanks
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Re: Valve clearance, hot or cold engine?
Reply #3 - 07/21/16 at 11:51:17

Back in the day, some cars listed both hot and cold clearance, as the mechanic would be driving the car into the shop and onto the lift.
Craziest was my '68 Opel Kadett. Valve clearance was listed/measured on the RUNNING engine. Factory tool to cover the cam sprocket so the oil wouldn't fly all over while adjusting the valves.
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cheapnewb24 Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1373 Virginia Gender:	Re: Valve clearance, hot or cold engine? Reply #4 - 07/21/16 at 16:04:52 I'd think it would be hard to check a hot engine. You'd be constantly burning yourself on pretty much everything. That doesn't include the race to get it apart while it's still hot. Any engineer who designed one that way should be beaten with a stick.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Valve clearance, hot or cold engine? Reply #5 - 07/21/16 at 18:12:59 How many 9 fingered mechanics worked on your Opel? Valve clearance lessens on a hot engine, correct? We want 0.003-0.005" clearance, correct?
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5157 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Valve clearance, hot or cold engine? Reply #6 - 07/21/16 at 20:37:37 Yes adjust them cold I had a ford falcon six cylinder that you had to adjust the valves hot and running , what a challenge , very accurate to loose it clattered too tight you couldn't get your feeler gauge out
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