Thank You All,  hope to able to work on it this Friday, if my back settles down!!    Many Thanks   God Bless   Eddie

Eddie

Lake Forest, Ca. 92630

I like my Pi with ice cream. 

Johns way is probably the easiest way to adj. on the base, I like to adjust through the firing order 15486372  adjust both intake and exhaust on No. 1 when No. 6 is on overlap, No.5 when No. 3 is on overlap and so on.  You're not on the absolute base but close enough and simple.  Like me! 

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

Here's another method of adjusting valves.

Rotate the engine until the exhaust rocker just begins to move. Adjust the intake valve at this point.

Rotate the engine until the intake rocker just stops moving. Adjust the exhaust rocker at this point.

Eddie, Engle calls for .018" intake and .020" exhaust on your cam.

While we're talking about adjusting valves I would like to stress that only Original Ford cams should be lashed at the spec in the manual.  Performance cams can be very different than OEM specs. Some cams lash as tight as .012" and some as loose as .026".

Most Schneider cams are tight lash and will be very noisy at factory specs. Some older designs require wide lash numbers and your off the seat duration will be in the 320+ degree range if you lash them at .018".

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20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico

I would think that there is a considerable space of cam "base circle" at TDC and on either side of it. True? Its pretty much directly opposite the "overlap"......

I've used this method of finding TDC - then placing a mark at three 90° intervals (1/4 turn) - and then going through the firing order to set them. Find zero lash on both valves then loosen 1/4 turn - turn the crank 1/4 turn and so on.

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

Doesn't the accuracy of this "shortcut" method of setting lash depend on precision of cam machining & chain tension/wear?

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

Pi is the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter. Pi = C / d. It is always equal to 3.14159 and actually goes on for a very long time. There is likely some supercomputer running right now trying to find out if the value of pi to a great number of decimal places.


Lawrenceville, GA

Thank You Guys;   Will give it a shot--   What is the diam. of the damp.  55 T-Bird  rebuilt by Damp. Doc. about a year ago. Sorry Ted, but what is pi??   Not a math student!   Again   Many Thanks   God Bless     Eddie

Eddie

Lake Forest, Ca. 92630

It is certainly much easier with the damper off.I had mine off and cleaned it up.Painted it black and then marked the 90 degree intervals with a dot of white paint.I also marked the intervals with a small  shallow drill hole in case the dots disappear over time.VERY handy for adjusting valves.

  

Glen’s method is definitely the quickest and is more than adequate for using to set the valves.  But if you want to be exact then measure the damper, multiply by Pi (3.14) and then divide by four.  This will give you the length around the damper between at each 90° interval if starting at the TDC mark.

Example:  If the damper is 6½" in diameter, then you will mark the damper at 4.908" intervals starting at TDC.

 

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Cut a strip of paper equal to (pi x diameter) / 4. Use this strip, starting at the 0 mark to mark every 90 degrees.


Lawrenceville, GA