jramirez35
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have been in a rebuild on this bad boy over the past month...with the exception of the weather, all has gone well. it is a stock rebuild...no MAF upgrade or aggressive cam. it worked well for 200,000+ miles stock, it will work for another 200,000 miles (hopefully) with a stock rebuild that was a budget build anyway. I did have a machine shop do all the machining work and in discussions with them, i decided on new cam, lifters, push rods, and rocker arms which is the way to go when you get a new cam anyways. i torqued down the heads last night and started attaching rocker arms when i thought to myself...is there a valve lash adjustment for hydraulic flat tappet lifters and stock rocker arms for this engine? the haynes doesnt mention it, youtube has a guy that is doing the exact rebuild i did and he doesnt do it, so is there one? I envision that i just rotate the engine in firing order to the compression cycle of each respective piston and tighten the rocker arms to torque specs which is 20 ft/lbs. Am i right on this? I remember on my very first car (a '66 Mustang w/a 289 and a roller cam) that you had to set valve lash by the description i gave earlier and then set the lash by tightening down till the push rod just stopped twisting in your fingers. Any clarification on this would help...i don't see with such a light torque spec that a lash adjustment would even make a huge difference. i eagerly await your responses.
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