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Originally Posted by mbolton1990
Thank you for the advice Barry,that's reassuring.
I read on a Sprinter forum (they have the same OM602 engine apparently) that the FSM says the maximum allowed gap is 0.008mm,I just re-checked the gap and mine is actually this:
0.012mm! sorry for the blurry pic
I need to see what the maximum safe amount is too skim off the head but it sounds like I may be able to get away with a light .004mm skim and be in spec,on a other note I may of just sourced another engine on the cheap..We shall see  |
STOP! You are reading the gages wrong, and you are off by a factor of 25.4. In the above picture, the big letters are the thickness in inches. The small letters are the thickness in millimeters.
The gage in the picture is .010-.012 inches, or .254 - .305 mm. For comparison, the wall of a soda can or a sheet of copy paper are about .005" or .13 mm, and the W123 front wheel bearing end play spec of .01-.015mm or .0004-.0006 in (4-6 ten thousandths of an inch) is the thickness of a sheet of aluminum foil.
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