PORSCHE 914 TYPE 4 ENGINE HOW TO ADJUST VALVES 

Just wanted to say that your production quality is fantastic! I love to see even the little things shot so nicely. Thank you!

You should probably mention that your valve adjusting lugs are not the stock ones. Yours have Allen heads, while the stock ones are slotted for a standard screwdriver. You've also got the solid spacers between the rocker arms instead of the stock springs. That doesn't directly affect the valve adjustment, but it does look different. Since I have stock aluminum pushrods on my engine, all the valves should have clearance when the engine is at TDC. So an easy way to determine if a cylinder is on TDC is if its flywheel mark is lined up *and* both rocker arms have some slack on them. If you're keeping up with your adjustments, the clerarances will not close up completely so this is a good indicator. The biggest pain in the butt about adjusting 914 valves is getting your hands and your tools into the right places for the adjustment. I can't even begin to imagine how you could show that, because you'd also need room for a camera...

I like your Allen head adjusters instead of having to use a right angle screwdriver. You should be using the angled feeler gauges instead of straight ones. Use your thumb and forefinger to hold the individual feeler gauge so you can feel a slight drag when adjusted.

Every 914 owner thanks you now 😉

I had the 73 2.0…I found 6 and 8 feeler gauges with a 45 degree bend on the end…made this easier.

Thanks Ian! Hopefully I’ll be performing this job in early summer!

Another good one Ian! Gonna miss you at Hayfields for the spring driving back east. Hope all is well out there. All the best from your engine mount borrowing friend, John.

Ian, thanks very much for all of these videos! They're so well done and so well presented; priceless. Just bought a 75 914 1.8 project car and will be watching these over and over again.

Great video sir! Thank you for doing this!

You should let people know to do this with the engine cold. Let it sit for an hour after running it and then adjust your valves.

Excellent vid

Oi Ian, espero que tudo esteja bem com você. Quero te perguntar sobre o seu 914 preto, o que aconteceu com ele? Quero aproveitar esta oportunidade para agradecer os vídeos que você faz em homenagem ao 914, eles têm sido muito úteis para mim, muito obrigado!

nice! I like the new garage.

Hi Ian, hope all is well with you. I want to ask you about your black 914, what happened to him? I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the videos you make in honor of 914, they have been very useful to me, thank you very much!

Well, that's all good and well. How do you adjust the valves with the engine in the car

Do you have to remove the engine to adjust the valves? Because there is no room zero room to do it in car

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