Cougsfan
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Back in my younger days I had a number of small block Chevy V8's, always with solid lifters (In those days, kids thought hydraulic lifters were for wimps. Adjusting your valves frequently was a sign of your supposed superior mechanical astuteness 
). When adjusting the valves we never paid attention to the marks. We'd just manually turn the engine a ways past the intake fully closing on a particular cylinder and adjust both valves. There is a lot of range in the 4 cycles where the cam isn't pushing against the lifters, and it doesn't make much difference where you are at on the majority of the compression or firing strokes.
). When adjusting the valves we never paid attention to the marks. We'd just manually turn the engine a ways past the intake fully closing on a particular cylinder and adjust both valves. There is a lot of range in the 4 cycles where the cam isn't pushing against the lifters, and it doesn't make much difference where you are at on the majority of the compression or firing strokes.