I think I understand it, you are waiting just a tick longer than the other guy who is adjusting when one valve is completely open, you are just waiting for it to just start its other movement. Do I have this?

As far as I understand, either your adjustment bolts have shoulders or they do not. Shoulders, you just torque them down. No shoulders, torque down until there is no up and down movement of the rod then go another 3/4 turn. I don’t believe mine have shoulders. The engine was changed but the guy did not put the engine in he said he did so I do not know. He said he put in a Jasper and it is not a Jasper.

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mjac

 

LOL I knew there was a reason I kept hanging onto my old test lights....LOL

 

But my Fluke 115 costs $266.

 

I've got a fluke, don't remember the model now. Back in 1995?? Cost me about $300, used it almost everyday for about 10 years, now It checks battery voltage a couple times a year and maybe gets switched over to continuity every now and then. They are nice to have but you could have done the same thing spending $10 on a meter from harbor freight. Enjoy your meter while you can because if you have a kid at home, it'll soon wind up missing,, blown up or found out in the middle of the driveway....Just personal experience here...LOL

 

$300 blown up, missing or out in the driveway?

mjac

 

Well, lets just say I watched a guy plug into his 20amp side on his meter, then for what ever reason decided to check a 480V circuit coming into the factory...Boom, Flash smoke and a trip to the hospital for a minor case of retina burn.
Missing or in the driveway....I found both...Son took my meter to work on his truck, I needed it about a week later and couldn't find it, so as with many of my tools, I go directly to his truck, look in the floorboard where I find a couple of my box end wrenches and a half dozen sockets a ratchet and a couple of extensions, all of which I took back, but no meter and for some reason, I popped his hood and there it is laying on top of the wheel well. I'm surprised it didn't bounce out. Then about 2 weeks after that I came home to literally finding it laying in the middle of the driveway. He said he was checking wiring and when he "Cleaned Up" it must have gotten knocked under the truck so he didn't see it when he took it out for a test drive. I have told him he better take care of the tools, because they become his when I'm gone, so he treats them like garbage, when I die, he gets garbage. All my Snap-on and Matco tools are just about gone, I started buying Craftsman, but he takes those too, so I'm am now officially an HF guy. I'm too old to spend big buck on expensive tools. If I use it and it works great for me. If he uses it and it breaks, too bad so sad, go buy a tool. I tried to tech him tool etiquette, and to clean them and put them away, especially when they don't belong to him, but it just never sank in and all the yelling and cussing in the world doesn't do any good.

 

Maybe one day.

mjac.

 

How good of an engine is the Boss 302, from what I understand, it dominated Can-Am Racing in the 70s.

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mjac

 

You want a solution to your problem?

mjac

 

😂😂😂 which problem? I have several. My solution would be to buy 100 acres move to the middle of it and be left alone....lolol

 

You are on the right track, “ be left alone.”… We are talking about the immediate problem you expressed so frustratingly in your post of your tool supply being depleted by various means, that I conveniently quoted for your easy reference.

mjac

 

What would your solution be? Im all ears.

 

IPad/WiFi crashed, just got it going

Well, here goes. You answered your own question, “ My solution would be to buy 100 acres, move to the middle of it and be left alone.” If that is not feasible, “buying 100 acres” becomes the metaphor and you have to create the “100 acres,” the haven, where you will be left alone. Build yourself a shop, if you already have a shop, renovate it, to represent a fresh start. Be sure to include a no entry, high security door and very stout security bars and guess who has the only key. Once this is done, you start equipping the shop with tools and equipment with great deals you come across, with one policy in mind, these are one way tools and equipment, they go in and they do not come out, nothing leaves the shop. That is your haven, that is your “100 acres.” Once you are done, start the projects you want to do. In other words, Mike1 is going to do something for Mike1.

I will come up there and build it.

mjac

 

I am ready to adjust the valves and see if the problems go away. Your adjustment technique differs from what I read about. This guy was saying you adjust the valves when the are all the way closed and you do that by watching the other valve completely open. You are saying adjust the intake when the exhaust starts to open (a little past being all the way closed) and adjust the exhaust when the intake just starts to close which would be way before it is completely closed. Is your procedure just for radical cams or is it also for mild cams? I have a stage 1 Melling Cam, very mild.

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mjac

 

No circuit board, no problem, there it is. The dangling red line would be the 12 volt feed into the voltage regular, the black line coming out of the regulator would be the regulated voltage which feeds the gauges.