Video: Acura Integra Valve Adjustment

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A DIY valve adjustment takes preparation and a considerable amount of time. Watch an automotive service excellence (ASE) certified master mechanic adjust valves in this free video on car maintenance.

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Hello, I am Mark Blocker. In this training video, we are going to cover a valve adjustment on a 1989 Acura Integra that utilizes a 1.6 Double Overhead Cam engine, sixteen valve. If part of a scheduled maintenance procedure, it is usually done at same intervals as a tune up at every vehicle manufacturer. Honda and Acura recommend every sixty-thousand miles or for extreme duty, a lot of inter-city driving stop and go, forty-five thousand miles or four years. A valve adjustment is one of the more important maintenance procedures that needs to be done on the engine at the tune up intervals. If they get out of adjustment, they cause driveability problems, damage, excessive wear, and loss of performance and gas mileage. Especially if a valve is over adjusted or you have a clearance problem where a valve is not closing all the way that does not allow the sonar to build up compression and can cause major other driveability problems by the change in signals given to the computer system which controls the fuel injection. So, it is extremely important that this get done. It will make a major difference on how the engine runs and how it performs. If the valves were bad out of adjustment when you adjusted them. So, watch our next segment on safety.

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Acura Integra Valve Adjustment

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