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Old 01-24-2010, 03:15 AM   #5
elislider
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Originally Posted by suberdave View Post
yeah you must put the shims back in the right spot, or your valve lash will be off.

if its to tight your valve may not shut. thus burning the valve. or if its to loose the shim could slip out and cause all kinds of problems...

you must put them in the right spot.

i just bought a set of V4 STI heads with the same problem, shims and buckets all in a box, and unmarked...

check them all with a micrometer, both shims and buckets and match them up. install them and check valve lash...

took me close to 3 hours to get mine all right...

-=Suberdave=-

if you dont use the shim under buckets. let me know, i may want to buy some/all your shims from you...
this was my problem. when i was taking the heads off and moving them around and stuff, i didnt have a engine stand, so i had the engine laying flat in its normal orientation, and all the exhaust side buckets fell out. i tried to remember which went where but ... alas i may have get them backwards (kept them in order but didnt know which was first. 4-3-2-1 instead of 1-2-3-4 probably)....
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