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R12 valve adjustment
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R12 valve adjustment
valve adjustment
R12 valve tools
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- Bruce Frey
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I generally do it as Bigsieuk
Fabricating a set of tools that fit is really, really helpful.
Bruce
John, NO, unfortunately not.
NO, unfortunately not. I have a casting to make them and I plan on it soon.
Mike
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John,NO, unfortunately not.
In time I will have them....
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I picked up a set on Ebay
My final solution was to nag friends to look in their rubbish drawers to see if they'd got any of those awful, thin multi-spanners that tend to come with new lawnmowers, strimmers and the like. I was able to cut these up and bend them to the correct shape. Because they're so thin they make life much easier. They wouldn't be suitable for anything that was really tight but they're perfectly adequate to tighten tappets.
- Bruce Frey
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Bicycle tools also make a
Bruce
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As Bruce says, you can buy
As everyone here has confirmed, adjusting the valves is a PITA no matter how you try. I've run my R52 on the Cannonball a couple times now and had to adjust valves on the side of the road.
I've tried both methods, and both are slow and annoying. If you don't have the right tools, you can really only do it by measuring with the valves closed and adjusting with the valves open. With usable tools, I think it can be done a bit quicker with the valves always closed.
BMW could have easily designed this so it could be done easily with regular tools. ~X(