Valve Lash Adjustment: running or not?

[Verne_Frantz]

I guess I'm just old fashioned, lazy or I just don't want to remember what "sequence" some proven procedure dictates. I just do each cylinder at a time.
I loosen both, then bump it around until the gauge is loose, then I tighten the nut until it's good, then bump it again. If it gets loose again, I tighten it down again. I repeat that until the after the last bump, the feeler gauge won't go in. I know I've covered the base circle that way and the lash isn't too loose or too tight. That's just easier for me then having to remember some IOECOEICOCIC 90deg, 180deg, 360deg ++ -- thing. Once around the block and I'm done and I don't have to remember a thing about "how" I should remember how far to turn it or which valve to run around the car and find or worry about forgetting one.

I do them cold and add .002 to the hot spec. Maybe I should add more on the exhaust then the intake, but that's the way I do it. I really don't think +or- .001" will matter on a fun car.

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]