[MBZ] Adjusting the valves

2014-07-14 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I finally got to work on this poor old car and pulled the cam cover off and started on the valves this weekend. I ran out of time so it is sitting in the garage waiting for me to come back to it. I have 3 valves left to adjust. The intake on 4 and on 5 and the exhaust on 5. I sort of got

Re: [MBZ] Adjusting the valves

2014-07-14 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I got a couple of cheap India wrenches at HF or a pawn shop or something for like a $USbuck apiece and put the torch to them to bend them to the proper angles to do the job easier. If you have a tight space you could cut one down too. I had done the job once before on the 300TD with regular

Re: [MBZ] Adjusting the valves

2014-07-14 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I have the special set of bent wrenches bought from Rusty years back. They work fine on all the valves but this one. May have to see what I can bend to work better on it. On 14/07/2014 4:25 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote: I got a couple of cheap India wrenches at HF or a pawn shop or