greg.opole
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Please help i am thunderbirda owner from 1964. How to make valve adjustments ??
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Number one - why are you needing to adjust your valves?
Are they hydraulic or solid lifters?
If they are Hydraulic and they are tapping bad, there is a very simple easy fix. Go to Walmart and buy a quart of Marvel Mystery oil and pour it in yur crankcase with your oil. It will clean the lifters and make them pump up like they are supposed to and they will quieten back to normal and you will regain your lost power. I have done this many many times with success on the older engines.
If it is solid lifters you will have to go online to find out what the clearance should be and you then remove a valve cover and with wrenches and feeler gauges you adjust them with the engine running. this is messy but the best way to adjust them. I will bet that you have hydraulic lifters in your engine. After the engine returns to normal you should change your oil and install new filter and oil. Occasionally after that you should use a few ounces of oil to maintain a clean engine. Best trick I ever found for an old engine.
Dale in Fl.
Those valves are non adjustable so they are hydraulic. Go ahead and put a quart of Marvel Mystery Oil in with your oil and run it for a couple of weeks and see if that helps solve your problem. If your lifters are noisy then they are not pumping up like they should. The more you drive it the better it will be. I had a friend that had a Torino with a 289 in it and he was fixing to change the motor due to noisy lifters and low power. I had him do this and he never changed the motor as his power came back and his noise went away.
Put one quart in your oil and run it for about a month and then change your oil. That should be sufficent time to clean your engine. You have to run the engine for it to do it's job.
Wynn has something called oil system cleaner. What do you think about that? We doft have Marvel Mystery in Sweden