solid lifter & adjustment
I am new to solid lifters/adjusting... a little green on motors on some things. I noticed a sound that was almost like a dead cylinder only @ low rpm. I checked all electrical first & plugs & wires. Checked for vacumn leaks... so far, so good. Next, I pulled on valve cover off the BBC. It had a slight stumble off idle & the low-end/rpm was not right... it had a classic valve failure sound. It has Milodin roller intake rockers & one of them was too loose (Builder says both int/exh are .26) the poly-lock had come a little looose it was probably @ about .80 or more. I adjusted it back to .26 & inspected all the others for tolerance, they were ok. I am very new to adjusting valve lash... would above cause that much trouble? This is mainly a street car/toy. Sympton started @local cruise here when I went home. Anyone ever have those poly-locks come loose? I bought a remote starer switch too, that was a big help to check the valve tolerance. Any advise on adjusting solid lifters before I finish this job???? Thanks gentlemen.