Valve adjust procedure, curious

Greetings from NoCal.
Just curious if anyone else adjusts the valve by-
Exhaust as intake closes and intake as exhaust opens. It ends up on the heel of the lobe
Ive been doping it this way on all engines since my 70's VW beetle days lying on my back turning engine over with a remote starter. Too lazy to get up and down. :roll:

just curious, why not set the valve clearances the same way the manual says - pistons at TDC on compression and set both intake and exhaust other side?

MS850 said:

Greetings from NoCal.
Just curious if anyone else adjusts the valve by-
Exhaust as intake closes and intake as exhaust opens. It ends up on the heel of the lobe
Ive been doping it this way on all engines since my 70's VW beetle days lying on my back turning engine over with a remote starter. Too lazy to get up and down. :roll:

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I've always done it kinda like that; set the exhaust as the intake closes and the intake as the exhaust begins to close. Setting the intake as the exhaust opens is a little dicey due to any overlap.

I use a similar method, but not quite the same. Because it's a 36o degree twin, the cam lobes for the two cylinders are 180 degrees apart, if you turn the engine over till the intake lobe on one side is at full lift, the other intake lobe is in the center of the zero lift part of the lobe. Same thing for the exhausts. The advantages of this method are two. First, it's pretty easy to tell by observation when a valve is at full lift, and second, because the other one is in the center of it's closed range, it isn't sensitive to being off a bit. Always seemed the simplest method to me, but probably not any quicker (or slower) than your method.

Ken

I've always used the procedure Ircken describes eezeepeezee

I'm pretty sure that my manual recommends the Irken method, not doing it at TDC.

Thats what I thought too.