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Originally posted by Guitar Nigel Guitar Nigel wrote:

Thanks. Adjusting them while hot and running was not as hard or as messy as I thought it would be. The lifters actually did not move that fast. 

Exactly, and I always found that the "official" gap specs were merely a ballpark figure. I always made adjustments on each valve so that they were quiet, but not so tight as to cause a miss.

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A little loose is better than a little too tight.
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