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Just got back to the computer. It has solid lifters and my decimal was off by one. It should have been .014. Was typing quickly before heading out. The mechanic said that he thought he heard a little noise initially, but then it went away. My hearing is not that good and we were also resetting the timing, as we had removed the distributor and intake manifold, so we were running the revs up to about 2000 rpm to check the total advance, which was set at 38 degrees.
So you guys think that .014 is a little too tight? They are aluminum heads on an iron block. I plan on bringing the car back in next week. My mechanic was not sure what to set them at, especially being that the original settings were all over the place and with no rhyme or reason. He called around and asked a few mechanics and that is where he came up with the initial setting of .014, figuring that it would grow when the engine warmed up.
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