Solid lifter initial valve lash adjustment

@toolmanmike can maybe find the most recent thread where this came up and post a link to it.

The upshot is for cold settings with an iron block and heads start your lash .003-.004 TIGHT.

If you have aluminum heads and an iron block set your cold lash at .006-.008 TIGHT.

For an all aluminum engine set the lash .014-.016 TIGHT.

Once the engine is warm check the lash and see where it is hot. If the hot lash doesn’t match what it should be (let’s say you want a .020 hot lash so you set them at .016 and that .016 is now .022 hot you know you need to set the cold lash .002 tighter cold to end up with the correct hot lash) then adjust the cold lash accordingly.

I never ever try to set the valves hot. I set them cold. Then I check a couple of random valves to see where I’m at hot and make the corrections cold.