Thread: Valve lash ?
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Old 05-12-2011, 02:47 AM
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Make sure you distinguish between cold lash and hot lash. Especially with aluminum heads, lash gets bigger. So for instance with an iron block aluminum head engine, if you started out with .020" cold lash, it could grow to .026-.028" hot lash.

That could be another reason why there is so much in your particular engine.
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