DIY! Honda Fit GE8 Valve Adjustment 

They say the Exhaust values get tighter and the Intake's go looser

Thats what I was thinking, I mean I guess for him the sound was a little better but my 190k '13 sounds like the after and has never had a valve adjustment, ill still probably do it the next time I change the plugs though

What kind of mpg do you average? My AT 11 gets like 32-33 and I drive cautiously

Manuel Carrillo III thank you sir!

Are they? I just got to digging cause my Toyota after 170 k has no valve noise still then this fit has had a little since we got it with 30k miles.

It could be a valve adjustment, but also could be that initially the oil isnt reaching all the places it should while the engine is cold but when it warms up it reaches up to the top of the crank case and lubes everything up. I would do the adjustment, and when the valve cover is off look for any sludge or buildup that might be affecting oil while cold. Also before you do your next oil change, run some seafoam high mileage motor treatment through the crankcase for 50-100 miles, this can dissolve some of the sludge and buildup, but make sure you change your oil and dont leave it this way for more than 100 miles or so. I also like to use some motorkote and lucas high mileage oil stabilizer on engines with this many miles, really helps to reduce friction and wear, and if your're hearing noises while your engine is cold youre definitely hearing that wear. add some of that to the crankcase after your next oil change..

I should also say that it could be piston wear as well, the piston can clatter inside of its bore when the engine first starts up, and then as it heats up the piston expands to deacrease the clearance between the engine and the bore. using a bore scope you can look inside each cylinder for damage to the cylinder walls, unfortunately this is one of those things that happens to really high mileage engines, but ive seen engines go for a long time with this problem as well, eventually if the engine is rebuilt it needs to be bored....i would take it really easy on the engine until its warmed up, until you find out what the problem is exactly...

@@MattB90 Thanks for the replies! I’ll try those.

I had a bunch of maintenance done at 100K for about $1200. That included valve adjustment, spark plugs, coolant change, and a bunch of other routine stuff that would be done more often. I'd bet the valve adjustment was a big chunk of that just based on how much needs to be removed to get there.

Because they’re both 56.1mm center bore with a 4x100 lug pattern. There’s a set on my car now squeezed by ITR calipers. Stops on a dime.

Thank you for the like and subscribe. Intake acceptable range is 0.15 - 0.19 and exhaust acceptable range is 0.26 - 0.30. Setting them at 0.18 and 0.28 respectively means they are within acceptable range and do not need additional adjustments.

@@patrickmorgan4268 0.15mm for intake and 0.26 mm exhaust when the engine it's cold and 0.19 mm and 0.30 mm when the engine is hot mate,remember this think :) have a nice day!

@@agamitzadandanache2379 You're spot on re: hot/cold, although personally I'd be a /little/ conservative if you don't have total confidence in the precision of your feeler gauges and allowing for a little creep when torquing the jam nuts.

@@agamitzadandanache2379 That's actually wrong. First, you're not supposed to do this job with a hot engine. You're supposed to do this cold ONLY. 90 deg F or below. Second, when the engine is HOT you need LESS clearance because metals expand when hot. That's the entire point of having valve clearances.

@@agamitzadandanache2379 First of all, you can't do this with a hot engine, just because the time it takes to remove the cylinder head cover is enough for the engine to cool itself. Second, the service manual clearly states “Adjust the valves only when the cylinder head temperature is below 38 ° C (100 ° F). Temperatures are not differentiated between intake and exhaust. This is to be clear to everyone. Mai dandanache, mai, tare ai dat-o tare cu nuca-n perete incercand sa pari destept.