2000 HUSKY TE410 -Valve Adjustment - Help
One, you need the original husky shims, unless you are a machinist and familiar with Rockwell hardness ratings. You don't sound like one so you are going to the shop. If you are not fond of driving back and forth to the shop, and paying large amounts of money on shims, let me make a suggestion. You have a thumper, but you have four valves on that cylinder, so proceed as follows. Rotate your engine to first valve. Uae your feeler gauges and measure how much thicker a valve you need, and check out what size shim you have. They pop right out. Write all this down. If you find a valve is too tight, put a thinner one in from another valve. go all the way around. If you are lucky, you will find something like this #1 has a 405 and is .005 too tight, thus needs a 400. #2 has a 410 and is .010 too looose, thus needs a #420. #3 has a 400 and is .010 too loose, thus needs a 410. #4 has a 390 and is .015 too loose, thus needs a 405. Put the shim from #3 in #1, put the shim from #1 in #4, put the shim from #2 in #3 ) and the only thing you need to buy is the #420 shim for #2. Be sure to install the shims with the number side down, or yo will have to measure them with a micrometer. (those are probably all the wrong numbers, but the shim valve adjusting method was really all the same except for the details.) By the way, keep the #410 shim from your changing episode. The only one who undertood it right away was my wife who started letting me in onwho was gaining weight. It turns out that everyone swapped clothes when gaining or losing weight. Now that was a system that was confusing......