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Subject:Re: Hydraulic valve lifter (mis)operation
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:20:33 -0500

At 11:54 AM 2/1/2000 -0800, Richard Bias wrote:
>understand and learn what is happening.  Bob, I followed your procedure and
>it seems to have worked very well (I have not done a compression test yet).

I defer to Bob on this, he's the pro.  Personally I'd check compression and
if there's any doubt, back them off completely, wait half an hour for them
to expand fully, then move them in until compression changes and back out a
bit from there.

d
David Beierl - Providence, RI
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