If you're setting valves on a diesel, you want the cam lobe to be 180 degrees (opposite) the flat spot on the follower. That's not necessarily "straight up". I eyeballed it for years and never had a problem. Straight up is not usually 180 degrees out.
Dan On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote: > I have been more than a bit negligent in terms of keeping the valves set on > my old 300D. > I bought the tools and the new gasket but have yet to do it. > I was thinking about it this past weekend and did a bit of searching online. > The advice offered was pretty loose. > My past experience with gas engines required one to turn to the specific > timing marks etc. > The advice offered on the diesels seemed to be just to turn the cam so that > the point sticks up. > Is that considered "close enough"? > I have never disconnected the throttle linkage? I seem to recall someone > suggested one just pops them apart by prying with a screwdriver? > Is that correct? I really don't want to damage anything by my own lack of > knowledge on how to do it. > > Randy > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
