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Engine Rebuild... Gaskets, Lash adjusters ect ect part numbers.
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<blockquote data-quote="Happster" data-source="post: 16276192" data-attributes="member: 76076"><p>I made some adjustable lash adjusters with two old ones, a bolt and cap nut. Measure the height of an old adjuster and note the precise height. Pop the cap off the old lash adjuster and pull out the head, sleeve and spring. Toss everything but the body. Clean it out with carb cleaner. Find a bolt with a head that fits down into the cavity of the old adjuster. Put the bolt in upside down into the body with a cap nut finger tight on it. Measure. Cut/grind the threaded side of the bolt until the cap nut (when finger tight) creates a minimum height for the entire assembly that is just below the height of a stock adjuster (such that it can be adjusted upward above the height of a stock adjuster by backing off the cap nut). Pull the bolt out, put JB weld inside the body of the adjuster and slide the bolt back in upside down without the cap nut. Fill the rest of the body with more JB. Let dry with threaded portion of bolt centered. Clean threads of bolt so cap nut glides on and off. Put cap nut on. Put it into the head and back the cap nut off until snug into cam roller. Don't adjust too much or you'll start opening the valve. (Put air to the cylinder to be sure it is still closed as a precaution.) Now you have a $120 worth of adjustable lash adjusters for $4.40 and about an hour of labor. Do twice to save time if you have DOHC so you can do one side without moving the tool that you're built back and forth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Happster, post: 16276192, member: 76076"] I made some adjustable lash adjusters with two old ones, a bolt and cap nut. Measure the height of an old adjuster and note the precise height. Pop the cap off the old lash adjuster and pull out the head, sleeve and spring. Toss everything but the body. Clean it out with carb cleaner. Find a bolt with a head that fits down into the cavity of the old adjuster. Put the bolt in upside down into the body with a cap nut finger tight on it. Measure. Cut/grind the threaded side of the bolt until the cap nut (when finger tight) creates a minimum height for the entire assembly that is just below the height of a stock adjuster (such that it can be adjusted upward above the height of a stock adjuster by backing off the cap nut). Pull the bolt out, put JB weld inside the body of the adjuster and slide the bolt back in upside down without the cap nut. Fill the rest of the body with more JB. Let dry with threaded portion of bolt centered. Clean threads of bolt so cap nut glides on and off. Put cap nut on. Put it into the head and back the cap nut off until snug into cam roller. Don't adjust too much or you'll start opening the valve. (Put air to the cylinder to be sure it is still closed as a precaution.) Now you have a $120 worth of adjustable lash adjusters for $4.40 and about an hour of labor. Do twice to save time if you have DOHC so you can do one side without moving the tool that you're built back and forth. [/QUOTE]
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