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Old 07-15-09, 11:09 AM   #13 (permalink)
lehiguy
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Originally Posted by bsc00ter View Post
so i was checking the clearance on the valves today and all of them were wrong. so that got fixed except that on two of them the pushrod (i think, it was on the opposite side of the rocker arm from the springs) is up higher than the rest. on those two valves i couldn't loosen it enough to get a gap between the springs and the rocker arm. what does that mean? or mean that i need to fix?
I means that valve is in some stage of it's open cycle. You need to rotate the engine untill those lifters go down. You cannot set lash unless valve is completely closed. The surest way to do that is set one when the companion valve is open and vice-versa.

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