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Are there any other than the air cleaner one(HKS SMF)?
If you haven't checked out celicasupra.com do so now (I know Wade has).Wade said:It been about 10 years since I did this one. Open the AMF box with a razor blade (cutting the seal). Then take a screwdriver and unscrew the spring keeping keeping the gear in place. Mark the stock location with a ink pen or paint. Then take and move the gear about 3 to 5 clicks clockwise. Tighten the spring again with your trusty screw driver and close the lid. This should give you about 6HP; although, I'm not expert here and am not 100% sure of the gains.![]()
Eeek! Yea, I remember when I did them in the fall of '91 it seemed to make a difference in the high end much not too noticable down low. But even a 5HP gain is gonna be hardly noticable even to a MKII veteran.quick said:
If you haven't checked out celicasupra.com do so now (I know Wade has).
My understanding is that those gains don't really come into play until after you've done other things (intake, exhaust, header)...
YMMV. It's a 15-19 year-old NA engine... you can't expect much.![]()
Port and polish is not that hard... you can do it with a dremel and some down time.threesixty said:How do I do that??? I know it takes some serious knowledge to port & polish...I think. What kind of gains would that yield?
Also, I'm burning some oil after I sit idle for any length of time. I know that there are 2 main oil burning problems...vavle seals and piston rings. Can you tell the difference by when the smoke comes? I hope it's just the vavle seals....
If that's the case, are vavle seals easy to replace(relatively of course)...I have a Chilton!
"white-bluish" smoke?threesixty said:Hmmmm....black smoke...that's never happened yet. Only that white-bluish smoke.
So, vavle seals are a home mechanic job? Great....
You can tell a lot by _when_ the smoke appears.threesixty said:Well, it does happen after I start up. But it also smokes after I idle for any length of time. It's definitely not black smoke. It's white with that blue tint to it. I don't know all the "smoke" colors...so what is white to me could be blue to someone else. If it IS white, that's bad news, huh?
Thats the valve stem seals. Light bluish smoke is oil smoke which has a very distinctive odor. On my old 5m the valve stem were pretty bad. Shortly before replacing the 5m I could idle at Jack in the Box for 10 minutes or so then leave and coat the entire block in blue smoke, lol. My favorite, with just a few revs, was to hose the guy behind me inline after I got my food. Even afterward there would still be plenty smoke left over to go all the way though 1st and 2nd gears to give everyone on 15th ave a good a good James Bond smoke screen. :smoker:threesixty said:Well, it does happen after I start up. But it also smokes after I idle for any length of time. It's definitely not black smoke. It's white with that blue tint to it. I don't know all the "smoke" colors...so what is white to me could be blue to someone else. If it IS white, that's bad news, huh?
It's been many years since I've seen the inside of a 5m afm so I can't remember it perfectly. I guess in the short and sweet I was saying to turn it 5 clicks clockwise as someone told me long ago.Voyn said:>>
Then take a screwdriver and unscrew the spring keeping keeping the gear in place. Mark the stock location with a ink pen or paint. Then take and move the gear about 3 to 5 clicks clockwise. Tighten the spring again with your trusty screw driver and close the lid. >>
two things:
1. no need to loosen any screws, the screw holds the spring in place, not the wheel - You just need a flathead screwdriver to pull the end of the spring out from between the teeth, and move it by hand. I marked my stock position by using a pocket knife to scratch a notch into the side of the wheel where the spring sits.
2. clockwise tightens the spring, not loosens it... counterclockwise to loosen.
okay, I'm done
Vern