Hydraulic lifters remove the lash by design, thus the two turns to give them
room to do their work.  Set per Bentley, then check again after you've
driven it around the block.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Blotz" <Mike.Blotz@PEARLIZUMI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:57 AM
Subject: hyd. lifter adjustment

> another question for the people  Getting the 2.1 back together and have a
question about the lifters. doing my pretension on the valves on my engine
that has been apart for about 1.5 months. I brought the adjuster in until it
touched at TDC and was going to bring it in one full turn. I know the
bentley says 2 full turns. this seems super excessive to me. I planned on
running it a little and then readjusting as per bentley though. 5 of the 8
are rock hard and the other 3 are spongy. I've read all the boston bob stuff
on adjusting to .006 and all that. wondering what people feel. my
observation at one full turn that it seems the valve is starting to open and
cannot rotate the push rod on the 5 hard ones. on the three spongy one--all
seems good--and I can rotate the push rod some.  Should I adjust just til
they touch on all--ie zero clearance? or should I pretension some? Or should
i do the .006 routine? Like I said--planned on redoing adjustment after some
miles are put on it.  Remember I'm an air cooled solid lifter guy--have
rebuilt tons of em. only other real experience i have with hyd lifters is in
corvairs. those are adjusted with the engine running as the most common
practice. back out til they clack--then tighten 2 turns. all while laying on
the ground under a running engine with out valve covers and hot oil spraying
on you--ahh the joys of american engineering.  anyway--love to hear people
thoughts. seems like they are supposed to be hard and the soft ones have air
in them (bleed down)  thanks in advance  mike
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