Technical Valve clearances and locking wheel bolts mk1

[MadMan0]

1997 mk1 1.1 spi 8v 55s
The valve clearances need doing as part of the service but I don't have the tool needed to check these - and i cannot find the right sizes of feeler gauge at our local parts store.

How much such I expect to pay to have these done at our local Fiat garage?

Also, does anyone know the size of locking wheel bolts needed for the mk1 alloys?

 

[fingers99]

What? Just pop into any engineer's merchant (I'm sure that a few remain in London) and buy a standard set of metric feeler guages. Or Machine Mart do them.

You change the size of the blades by using two (or more!) blades together. Simples!

Shims -- assuming you'll need one or two -- are cheapest from Fluffy the Impaler.

Dunno what FIAT would charge you -- in London I'd expect to be paying 50 pouind an hour labour, and if a shim needs changing it'll be close to the 2 hour mark.

Dunno about the wheelnuts -- why not measure?

 

[MadMan0]

cool, well i got the locking wheel nuts today, i went into store and we tried to match them - i think we went though every set

The computer they had suggested two, the first was way off and the next looks fine although a little shorter than the standard wheel bolts I have, looking at some other threads i assume this is normal, for them to be a bit shorter ~ 8mm shorter in thread length

I'm going to go into Fiat and see how much they would charge to do the valves (At some point this year)