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Components with mechanical valve lash setting
Mechanical tappet
- Steel body
- Valve directly activated
- Valve lash mechanically adjusted
Mechanical tappet with top shim
- Loosely inserted in tappet body
- Supplied in various thicknesses
- Material and heat treatment can be selected as required
Valve lash is adjusted by means of the shim thickness.
Mechanical tappet with bottom shim
- Defined lash between cam base circle and tappet body outside surface - due to shim thickness
- Very low tappet mass > reduced valve spring forces and thus frictional power
- Large contact surface for cam
Mechanical tappet with graded base thickness
Shim:
- Valve lash adjusted by means of the tappet base thickness
- Very low tappet mass
- Reduced valve spring forces and thus frictional power
- Large contact surface for cam
- Very economical manufacture feasible
