RedPuller
Diesel Inside
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I recently installed the smaller springs needed to turn my 3K into a 4K gsk and was wondering about the amount of clicks needed to set them up.
When I removed the lock, I counted the clicks and had 6 on one set of springs and 1 click on the other set of springs. Put the locks back the same way, 6 clicks on the one side and 1 click on the other. All these click are past the intial click to lock the keeper. It idles fine, very close to the same as before, maybe 50-100 RPM +/- but right at about 800.
What I am curious about is, would it be to any benefit if I fiddled with it some more and took say 3 clicks out of the set of springs that took 6 clicks of pre-load and added 2 to the one that took 1 click of pre-load to make them the same with 3 clicks of pre-load on each set of springs? Or is the best way to set it up by the idle conditions, like too high of idle back some clicks out, too low idle, put some more in. Basically just wondering what benefit if any to the amount of pre-load on the spring sets.
Obviously the best way to try it is trial and error but I figured I would ask here first rather than making large oil messes on the ground by removing the plug on the side each time for an adjustment.
Thanks, Joe
When I removed the lock, I counted the clicks and had 6 on one set of springs and 1 click on the other set of springs. Put the locks back the same way, 6 clicks on the one side and 1 click on the other. All these click are past the intial click to lock the keeper. It idles fine, very close to the same as before, maybe 50-100 RPM +/- but right at about 800.
What I am curious about is, would it be to any benefit if I fiddled with it some more and took say 3 clicks out of the set of springs that took 6 clicks of pre-load and added 2 to the one that took 1 click of pre-load to make them the same with 3 clicks of pre-load on each set of springs? Or is the best way to set it up by the idle conditions, like too high of idle back some clicks out, too low idle, put some more in. Basically just wondering what benefit if any to the amount of pre-load on the spring sets.
Obviously the best way to try it is trial and error but I figured I would ask here first rather than making large oil messes on the ground by removing the plug on the side each time for an adjustment.
Thanks, Joe