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Originally Posted by blykins
If you run them the first time, they need to be checked hot. If you're just verifying lash, get the engine hot, pop the valve covers, get a remote starter switch a feeler gauge and take 30 seconds to check them. They don't change every weekend as people think, and you're basically just checking to make sure nothing has slipped or broke.
I think people make too much of a deal of checking lash. I have to check lash/preload on every engine on the dyno, and I can run through it in about 2 minutes.
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But he has obviously never done it before. It would be absolutely, 100%, impossible for him to get all 16 valves done before they cooled off. You know that.
The first time he'll just be concentrating on making sure he's doing EO/IC properly and not getting it backwards. And I say he should use a ratchet wrench on the crank bolt with his floor jack handle on it -- using the bump starter 50 times is going to chip a tooth.