naviathan

You use the snippets of feeler guage under the lash pad to adjust it's height. Then you take the thickness of the lash pad and add the total thickness of the feeler guage snippets to it and you have your total size required for your new lash pads.

I'm not using stock retainers fortunately. I have the schneider performance springs and retainers. I thought .200" was a bit much too, but I'm not real sure what else it could be.

Ok just did the measurements and it seems I would need .200" thick pads just to get my stock cam right?!?!?!?! That seems a bit much too me, what do you all think?

I've read BRAAP's awesome write up on setting up a custom head. Now I'm in a quandary of sorts. I have the lash pads that came with my springs and performance cam (that is of course wiped out now). No I'm setting up a stock cam in the same head and trying not to make the same mistake twice. This head has had the valve seats ground which of course messed with the lash pad size. I'm getting my hands on a micrometer to figure the right size out, but I've got it nailed using small washers. According to BRAAP's thread for the DIYer it's not necessary to buy every lash pad size there is, but you can use snippets of feeler gauges to make them thicker with solid pads. My question, is this safe to do? Can I just adjust my valve lash with these little washers till it's right and leave them in instead of purchasing the large lash pads necessary?

Hmmm, ok I thought Blue had a tech tip on it, but I guess not. The simple answer is, cut the hose as deep as you can with an exacto knife, I think the FSM says to use a hot soldering iron. Once you get the hose completely out the metal band on the base will come off. Just replace the hose with fuel injection hose and solid band fuel injection hose clamps.

Sounds like you have some more tuning to do. I've had many problems with my 240SX TPS. It never stays calibrated. The readings constantly float at both ends like it's moving when it's not. Sitting at idle it will creep up slowly in resistance. I don't know what the deal is. My MS works great on the stim, but I've been through 3 240SX TPS sensors and they all do the same thing.

Ok the flywheel shifting around isn't right. Was this swap from an automatic? The auto uses longer bolts through the flexplate because of the spacer needed. If those bolts are used on a regular flywheel they won't tighten down all the way. As for the rattling, if it goes away when you choke the rear carb the butterfly on that carb might be loose. Check it over real good and see whats rattling or missing.

http://www.atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips/ Check here for tips on getting them apart.

That would be an M16A2.

My what a big gun you have! lol

Metal based transport materials for electronic data transfer is way outdated. Fiber Optics is the way to go now.

Yeah you need a new shoe salesman. Obviously Al Bundy was working when you picked those up....lol

Wow, yeah you two do look a lot alike.

What is that running on the PC? Sorry, I'm a computer tech so that's what I notice of course.

Geez, you can get closet fiber for less than that. They make an ultra fast transmit fiber cable for audio closet cabling that's got 0 loss and costs about $60 a foot.

Usually sit-ups and crunches are the best way to get them, but I don't think the seat lays down far enough. Seriously though I believe there's after market kits for ABS on classics.

I'm game. Here's the pimp shot... lol Joking I was trying on a suit I had made years ago that I'd never worn and the wife shot the pic.

Looks like fun. I'll be in the middle east in November, but I won't be making that show. I'll be stuck in Iraq instead.

I've heard several different ways and reasons to store a crank. Personally I think on it's end in a piece of PVC capped on both ends is the best way, but that's just me. lol

Yeah but wives are easier to get "payment" from then coworkers. lol

Sounds to me like a very unstable individual.

Don't go to coastal fluid. It's cheap crap. As for the tranny trouble, I'd have the coworker that trashed it pay for the tranny and your time taken to install it. That's messed up. If you can't drive don't try on someone elses vehicle.

Holy crap! He acted like he wasn't even surprised about it.

I'm starting to think that maybe we need different threads for MS-I and MS-II. The maps and settings thread is great, but it takes forever to find someone who's posted and MS-2 map. You start throwing in the MS2-E stuff and the thread is going to be ridiculously crowded.

Nice work Phil. The car sounds great.