The joys of adjustable lifters

[Darrin Wright]

I love the detail and length of your exploits Lynn.

When I did my engine, I purchased new guides, springs and the interference lifters from Macs. These lifters were hollow and allowed tools to go through them and assist with adjustment.
I did not buy any special tools, just followed dads advice and old skills to adjust and rebuild.
I have heard both good & bad of some of the parts from Macs.

They were the type (I did not know you could make small mods to the block to assist with adjustment) that I figured had to be installed and checked, then removed from the block and adjusted. That is the process I followed, similar to the old original methods of adjustment. Place them in the vice and make an ever so small adjustment and then re-install and repeat the process, checking & measuring.

Check my resto pics, no ref pics to post for you.

At best, it took me about 1hr per valve and one or two that were a pain in the a&$e was about 3hr. Found a bent valve...So after about 3 days I had completed the valve adjust and install.
Luckily Im not paid by the hour and could have had a 3rd arm for the task.