I got a couple of the valves adjusted on the "81" 300d, non turbo that I bought yesterday when my home made, bent 14mm wrenches failed. One of then opened up so it would slip, I used cheap wrenches which was a mistake. I borrowed the "real" ones from a friend and took mine over to the vice and with the sawzall cut the pipe handles down to where there was only about 2" left. I am not used to doing the valves on a 617 and there was lots of stuff in the way and that #5, what a bugger. Anyway the point here is I completed the job in record time by loosening the adjusting nuts with the "real' wrenches and then using my "stubby' wrenches to finish the job. They worked great where the long handles of the "real" wrenches would hit things. I am going to make another set using craftsman wrenches but keep the stubbies for finishing. It really went fast without those long handles.

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