Thanks "George Jets" and do you think the previous owner put solid lifters in instead of the hydraulic? Any suggestions what the best lash setting should be?
.010 ths on intake and .012 on exhaust for valve lash on a warm engine, solid lifters with adjustable rockers.
Man you are really going to have to make sure you have solid lifters and not hydraulic lifters that would have been stock on a 360.
Hydraulic lifters need around .030 ths preload after zero lash, intake and exhaust.
So as you can see there is a huge difference between adjusting solid lifters and hydraulic lifters.
If you have hydraulic lifters running .020 ths lash that would be as noisy as a pair of spoons. And like the guys say, it would have beat itself all to hell by now.