I am the Tool of the Month for April
geodon - April 22nd, 2009 at 08:35 AM
I'll post this just in case someone else is silly enough to do the same thing!
I went to set the tappets on my KG (1600TP), fanned out the feeler guages to locate the one I always use- it's easy to find coz it's bent @ right
angles to get in the gap- yep it's got a 6 on it.
Funny! Why is the one in front got an 8 on it & the one after it got a 10? Well shoot! I've been setting them to 9. I read the damn thing upside
down!!
Upshot is when reset to 6thou the engine went as quiet as a mouse & on its regular weekly trip of 320km, it only used 23.6 lites of fuel instead
of 25.
donn - April 22nd, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Ha ha and lol couldn't imagine me making that mistake, well not more than twice anyway.
68AutoBug - April 22nd, 2009 at 04:04 PM
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posted by geodon
I'll post this just in case someone else is silly enough to do the same thing!
I went to set the tappets on my KG (1600TP), fanned out the feeler guages to locate the one I always use- it's easy to find coz it's bent @ right
angles to get in the gap- yep it's got a 6 on it.
Funny! Why is the one in front got an 8 on it & the one after it got a 10? Well shoot! I've been setting them to 9. I read the damn thing upside
down!!
Upshot is when reset to 6thou the engine went as quiet as a mouse & on its regular weekly trip of 320km, it only used 23.6 lites of fuel instead
of 25.
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Mine has got 007 & 008
and i'm thinking of only carrying the 006 007 & 016 feeler gauges...
I use the 007 to check the 006 isn't too wide...
I have heard of owners doing them to 007 ..
My 006 is also very easy to find...
its also the bent and scratched one...
LEE
Joel - April 22nd, 2009 at 04:18 PM
i bet the neighbours loved the sound of a sewing machine coming up the road
dont worry we all make silly mistakes somewhere along the line
h - April 22nd, 2009 at 04:47 PM
nice one.. 
General_Failure - April 22nd, 2009 at 09:04 PM
At least you didn't get the metric and imperial mixed up *cough*