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Old January 30th 05, 04:30 PM
Mike Romain
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What happens if you have old sticky lifters that don't come all the way
back up when compressed dry like the OP 'appears' to have? (weak
springs, a dirt or varnish ring, sludge in the hole, whatever)

You can only be sure the first one is at the top because you have to
rotate the engine for the next so all lifters are moved before
adjusting.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

pater wrote:
>
> New lifters or used, as I recommended in the first post & in complete
> agreeent with Ian, you can do them statically with absolutely no
> headaches. Adjust them on the way back together with your motor, button
> up the valve covers, when it's time, start the thing up, have a nice
> day. Overthinking & "booklearning" theories on this board are rampant &
> as some of us know, people are sometimes giving advise based on these
> principals & not on actual experience. It seems the problem in this
> case is either the original poster is over parinoid or shouldn't be
> doing this job himself to begin with. Adjust 'em once, if done
> correctly, & forget about it, go on to the next step. If he had them
> adjusted then turned the thing over by hand & found play in the ones he
> already had done, then he did something wrong the first time, thus
> justifying my "find somebody that knows what their doing to get it done
> for ya" theory. Good luck.

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