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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Depot sheet detailing the tappet adjustment procedure for Phantom F.2.B. series engines and onwards.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 17\6\  Scan053
Date  1st November 1928
  
[Handwritten top center] X7060
[Handwritten top right] X8060 [crossed out]
[Handwritten top right] X7060
[Typed top right] Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG2.11.28.

To Hm.{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

We recommend that the following note should
be sent round as a Depot Sheet.

PHANTOM TAPPET ADJUSTMENT.
F.2.B. SERIES & ONWARDS.
---------------------------

For Phantom engines with aluminium cyl. heads
it is essential that special consideration is given to
tappet adjustment.

The correct tappet adjustment for these
engines is .005" clearance with a cold engine. It is
essential that the tappets are adjusted with a cold engine.
The characteristics of the F.2.B. series engines is that
the tappet clearances increase in the first stages of
warming up the engine. This is due to the fact that the
cyl. and head get hotter much more quickly than the
duralumin push rods. When the cyl. head and tappet rods
arrive at a mean temperature, the clearances should become
normal.

The only safe way to adjust the clearances
on this engine is to adjust the tappets when the engine is
cold.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  


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