Motor dies after startup.

I am doing the same thing tomorrow. I had two bent pushrods that I bent back straight and adjusted as far as they would go. I ran out of adjuster so it has a rough idle, but good enough to drive the 1.2 miles to work each day. I reallllly wish I had your weather, however. Its funny, out of the many slant sixes i've rescued over the years this is the first one i've had sticky valve problems on. All the rest i've been able to cycle a few tanks of gas thru to get the old crap out but that was back in the early 90's. Hell, some of those cars had weeds growing above the roof with the last year of vehicle tabs being in the mid 1980's.