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Old Jul 19, 2004 | 10:32 AM
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how important is the RPM?

my car idles at 950ish RPM and it should be 900rpm

since i dont have a timing light with a proper RPM display on it i wont be able to get it bang on 900

will this massively effect things when i go to set the timing? or 50ish rpm considered to be "within limits" ?
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Old Jul 19, 2004 | 10:36 AM
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950 will be fine.
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Old Jul 19, 2004 | 10:40 AM
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1 more quicky for you stu... one of my tappets is quite... erm... tappety

is this likely because i didnt set that one correctly when i did em the other week?
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Old Jul 19, 2004 | 11:14 AM
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Very
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Old Jul 19, 2004 | 11:16 AM
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joy

anyway emailed you about hopefully getting the car up to you in august for a professional to do it properly

ie deffo not me
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