Quote: I maintain that you may have adjusted you lifters wrong not that you did but may have. In my above post I suggested that you took the hydraulic to tight therefore ajusting the lifters with a bottomed out plunger. Now finding that you have solid lifters I maintain that you may have adjusted them to 0 lash + one turn which is not the way to do it. With the lifter on the base circle of the cam the intakes need .010 clearance HOT and the exhaust need .018 clearance hot.
No I didnt do a leakdown like was suggested- I will have to invest in the parts to get the setup- maybe next time I can find it on my own.
Well Im defintiely no expert- I preferr adjusting chevy rockers while they are running
Anyhow- I dont THINK i adjusted them wrong because the car ran fine for a while and then progressively got worse... For some reason they tightened themselves up- If they are solid then I dont know how they tightened up on their own.
I plan to run another copmpression check this weekend as I want to see if the compression changed on that side.
After that I will recheck lash on all the valves. I did it hot last time but this time i will record the numbers hot and cold...
I guess adjusting the valves should of been one of the ten items you mention you did to the car in the first post.
I would not adjust solid lifters running, but would adjust it hot initially as MoparforLife suggested.
Other than the mess there is absolutly nothing wrong with adjusting them with a feeler gauge while running. Not all that hard to do on older vehicles that that use self locking adjusters without the lock nuts. Done an awful lot of them over the years. Wasn't all that many years ago that that is how it was mostly done.
