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Old 12 Apr 2005, 02:34 pm
Elmo P. Shagnasty
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Default Re: Valve adjustment service question

In article <jason-1204050954520001@pm4-broad-39.snlo.dialup.fix.net>,
jason@nospam.com (Jason) wrote:

> My owner's manual has a chart that indicates:
> Adjust valves at 105,000 miles. Adjust valves prior to 105,000 miles only
> if they are noisy.
>
> My Chilton's repair manual indicates
> that the valves should be adjusted
> 15,000 miles
> 30,000 "
> 45,000 "
> 60,000 "
> etc
>
> Which is correct?


At one time, Honda designed their engines to require valve adjustments
every 30K miles.

Not much has changed on the 4 cylinder front, other than they'd like to
compete in the marketplace with other manufacturers that claim "no
maintenance" engines.

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