Neil, I thought you did it exactly right. Why is it a question?
It sounds like a lifter leaked out its oil. It needed to be pumped
back up. You did what I would do.

The only thing I would do differently is instead of idling for a while
waiting it to be pumped back up I would rev the engine up and down
to speed up the process. I found it would pump up faster by reving it
with no load. Just my 2 cents.

David

--- neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> A question.
>
> One lifter is consistently noisy at start up. Play felt "soft" not
> solid like all the others. I found that its' adjuster screw had to be
> turned WAY in to take out play. I could see this was wrong. Even then
> it was hard to judge if play was solid. This was with engine cold.
>
> To get a more accurate adjustment, I adjusted all except the soft
> lifter, (engine cold) put noisy lifter back to it's original setting,
> then started engine and waited for lifter to quiet down. I figured it
> was properly (or as good as it gets) filled with oil at that point.
> After that, when pulling the rocker back to check play, it felt more
> "solid". I felt that this way I could adjust it more accurately.
>
> Was this the wrong way to do it?
>
> I understand the right way involves replacing the lifter! --- :)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil.
>
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>
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