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I believe Terry Keeley made some little gauges that slipped through the glow plug hole to check the head clearance. Does anyone have this tool they would part with?
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Old school .Use Solder .or use dial callipersI believe Terry Keeley made some little gauges that slipped through the glow plug hole to check the head clearance. Does anyone have this tool they would part with?
That’s kind of what I was seeing myself last night it doesn’t seem to be super accuratethere's a huge discrepancy between my squish gauge and solder. like over .005"
When I use the rod in the caliper to do that though I always wonder if I am perfectly flat when I push down and so I do check that way too but I confirm with 30 thou solder and sometimes I even rotate it a couple times over on the same solder and it seems to just smash to what it can smash too. I guess I really just don't think to much on it anymore just get er done and go running.Depth micrometer easiest, most accurate method for setting clearance. Highly repeatable, measure deck height at TDC, measure button from touch-down surface to squish band, subtract difference....usually a negative (interference) sum, determine shim thickness needed for desired clearance.
Using used shims (pre compressed) a smidge more accurate, by maybe a couple of 1/10000"....not a big deal.
This isn't rocket science.
Yeah, that base is the key.
Money well spent: https://www.mcmaster.com/2325A45/Yeah, that base is the key.
That’s kind of what I was seeing myself last night it doesn’t seem to be super accuratethere's a huge discrepancy between my squish gauge and solder. like over .005"
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