Patent ID: 8240283

Claim:
A method for producing and using a guide strip for adjusting the valves of an internal combustion engine; the method comprising: a) preparing a flexible, non-extensible, strip having a length equal to a circumference C of a damper wheel of the engine; b) adapting an outfacing side of the strip with a plurality of transverse marks, the marks spaced apart on the outfacing side by a distance of 2 C/n where n is the number of cylinders of the engine; c) adhering the strip to a circumferential edge of the damper wheel in a position where one of the marks is offset from a TDC marker of the damper wheel; d) aligning each one of the marks in turn with an engine marker and adjusting, in tum, the valves corresponding to the cylinders related to the marks; e) adapting the appearance of the marks so that each alternately positioned one of the marks is discernible as relating to a first set of the marks, and the remaining marks are discernible as relating to a second set of marks; and carrying out step (d) for the first set of marks and only then for the second set of marks.