<VV> Valve Adjustment

[Smitty]

Smitty Says;  A couple of people have brought it to my attention that the 61 
manual does indeed describe hot running adjustment.  Thanks Guys.  The two 
methods are "hot" in the maintenance section and "cold" in the assembly 
section.  I obviously am a little"slow" but I read that as "build it this 
way" and if you have a problem, "check it this way".
At club tech sessions I have shown over and over again that the object in 
cold adjust is to "just touch" the delicate lifter piston spring and not 
compress it at all.  We have had some in the club that can grasp an oily 
pushrod and spin it even after the valve has started to open so I reject 
that as not being a good practice for teaching.  On the other hand I have 
shown the "contact" method to people and when they tried it they screwed the 
lifter down till it bottomed out just because they could rock it from side 
to side.You got to develop a feel for it just like when adjusting hot.  If 
you don't insure the lifter is pumped all the way up you are wasting your 
time.  As for one way being superior to the other, all I can say is cold is 
a lot less messy.