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Old 07-16-2002, 10:46 PM
dabenz dabenz is offline
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Leathermang,

Nice work. Do you belong to the "Brazing - The Lost Art Club" or is that gold paint?

My tricks:
1) Make a fist and push down on the bottom wrench so that your thumb is up (that's why the wrench has a foot).
2) Loosen lock nut with middle wrench.
2) Hook middle wrench under thumb.
3) Use feeler gauge (0.001" smaller than spec) and lock it in with top wrench on top nut. Pull the feeler gauge out of the set to do this. One gauge is light, the set is heavy.
4) Run lock nut up, then back off just enough to loosen top nut and pull out feeler gauge.
5) Check with the proper sized feeler gauge while holding top nut, then tighten lock nut.
6) Check again with the proper feeler gauge before moving on to the next valve.

After a few tries you'll know just how far to back off the nuts to pull out the small feeler gauge.
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