Toyota Twin-Cam Valve Adjustment

by Import Service | Oct 1989 | Import Service, Toyota

I worked in a shop where some of the technicians thought shim-style valve adjustments were a type of legalized gambling. The way they figured it, selecting the right adjustment shim involved about three parts luck and one part skill.

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