--- neil <goofymuso@YAHOO.CA> wrote:

> If I preload lifter and leave it that way, in theory
> and all things being equal, is there enough travel
> internally in lifter so that it will keep "self
> adjusting"?  i.e. it won't start keeping the valve
> partially open if it pressurizes back to orig specs?

or more accurately:

If I turn the adjuster screw to take out play created
by a soft lifter, and the soft lifter comes unstuck
(or air bleeds out) and returns to its' normal
"length" is there a risk that this will cause the
valve to open more than it should and hammer into
piston?

TIA,

Neil Nicholson.
1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil

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