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This one has me stumped, what is it?
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Not with the right tool, it's no worse than any other shim type valve adjustment. even without the tool you can just measure all the gaps, pull the cam box off, change the shims, and bolt the cam box back on with a new gasket.
Just finished another batch of the shim tools this morning.
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No worse than any other shim setup? Maybe, but sorry, it's just a bad design and you can have that tool and still be screwed. If it's like the silly VW setup you need the goofy pliers to fish the shims out and a big box of various shims. Just like I avoid all cars with rubber bands(timing belt time bombs) I also avoid cars with valve shims.
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I think that Stanley Unwin got there first.
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Nick
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Gibberish goes all the way back to the first standup comedic Neanderthal who got his tongue wrapped around his eye tooth and couldn't see a word he was saying , but genuine turbo encabulators are rare on craigslist. Rare indeed.I think that Stanley Unwin got there first.
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Nick
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I had an X-19. Timing belt broke about 20,000 miles early. I pulled the head and gave it a valve job with new unbent valves and a tune up. Setting the timing didn't require removing the engine. Setting the valves required measuring the clearance and recording it then pull and measure the shims and getting the proper thickness shims from Fiat. It is a pain in the bucket seat. Installed points and set timing by removing the seat and removing an access panel behind the passenger seat. Next week on Sunday night the throwout bearing went for a spin down the street. Had to pull the suspension and transaxle that night put in a new clutch and pressure plate along with the missing bearing. That took 2 hours of hustle. It was a fun little car to drive but a constant headache to maintain.The tires never met a nail that they didn't like either. I was much younger back then.
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$200 for the starter, and another $800 for the labor to tear apart the engine to replace it. (Numbers pulled out of air, I have no experience, just think it is a dumb place to put a starter. Yes, under the intake on a V6 or 8.
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WOW!!! Ive seen alot of crazy $h!+ done to machines for alot of different reasons especially those coming out of the local backyard mechanic garage but That has got to be just about the most Ridiculous mass produced design i have ever seen! I just hope pulling the top half isnt a difficult job!
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So, Jim, I think you have part of a gantry grinder. This one seems to be set up for OD on large pipe. Possibly for chamfering large oil pipe. Just my guess, but chamfering mills used to look much like that. Not worth a wooden nickle without the head.