I'm by far not an expert, but I would say ...#1 Make sure you have at least 2 1/2- 3 hours. ( if you are as much of a perfectionist as I am anyways) The first time I did it I started the job with a pair of 14mm wrenches, after about twenty minutes I decided to seek out a pair of inexpensive wrenches and made a trip to the basement and introduced them to Mr. torch and Mr. benchvise ! Now that I have a "custom" set of valve adjustment tools, the job is much nicer You will see what I mean when you get there. It really isn't a bad job, I'd give it a 3 bannana rating. ( This is a VW rating, three bannana's means that the job requires oposable thumbs ! Tom

I have not seen the bannana rating system in years.

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