adjustable tappets

Marsho · Post by **Marsho** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:14 pm

Hi, this might seem a daft question but what gap do you set your adjustable rokers/tappets to? when reading a lot of post on here different people have different cams for different applications, so how do you know what the gap should be? is it related to the valve lift or is there a standard setting, hope some one can advise as it does confuse me, thanks .

CastleMGBV8 · Post by **CastleMGBV8** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:32 pm

Are you talking about adjustable push rods and hydraulic lifters? if so with lifters empty you want to set the pre load on the lifters to 20thou for optimum performance with any hydraulic cam.

Kevin.

Marsho · Post by **Marsho** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:58 pm

Sorry I forgot to mention adjustable rockers with solid lifters , cheers.

CastleMGBV8 · Post by **CastleMGBV8** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:20 pm

In that case I would check with the cam manufacturer, I have heard of anything between 16 and 22thou for solid cams.

Kevin.

ian.stewart · Post by **ian.stewart** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:01 pm

Piper say 20/20

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