With help from a friend more familiar with adjusting valves on Hondas, we were able to complete the job in 6 hours. It must've been the hardest/time consuming thing to do... heck we could've done nearly 3 Hondata insulator installs in that same timeframe.

I've heard that someone on this forum has fabricated a special tool to make things easier and I'm wondering who that was and/or how to obtain it.

BTW, the results of the valve adjustment was a different sound (quieter) during throttle blips, and a very smooth idle. My valves before the adjustment were tight on the exhaust side and very loose on the intake side.

 

In this thread https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.ph...ic=93197&st=25 they talk about a few tools that people have used to adjust the valves.

How many miles are on your car? Did you notice any ticking or rough idle before the valve adjustment?

 

PM marcucci. He has a home-made valve adjustment tool. I have one and it works great. I believe he just posted in the North Texas forum that he's trying to unload the ones that he has left.

 

The marcucci tool makes this an easy task.

 

I don't think its the tool that makes this job easy.. its the fact that in order to get proper drag on the feeler gauge you have to get the right angle with the gauge and have it level, if you go straight in it gets bound up and gives you a false sense of drag. Working around the intake side is a nightmare too trying to get both hands in there to make sure you're getting the correct drag on the gauge.

I just adjusted mine @ 75k miles and used a regular valve adjustment tool from Snap-On.

 

Are you using angled feeler gauges? I picked up a set of Craftsman angled feelers from Sears for about 10 bucks, and they do improve the situation. I tried using a set of straight ones at the track a couple of weeks ago, and it was very challenging, as you've described. If you're not using angled feelers, I'd recommend that you get some. They're worth it.

 

Even using the angled and stepped gauges it wasn't super easy (which I was using) Good advice for those who don't know.

 

I just bent my straight feeler guages to a 90* angle with my hands. It's cool because you can customize the length of the feel relative to the bend.

You only need to bend a couple of the strips anyway.

 

Well most of the bent gauges are stepped which makes adjusting the valves a million times easier.

 

these will help

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?...900150001800085