I recently did my valves and I noticed something annoying as I did. My car is a 98 EX with 187k, but this probably happened to your engine too.
What I noticed is wear.
I couldn't get my valves adjusted right the first time, so when I went back and did it again, I removed each rocker arm and looked at it before adjusting that valve. My intake rocker arms all have a flat spot where the cam shaft pushes down on it (the cam-riding face is convex), and my exhaust rockers all had a groove worn into them at the same place.
This is important to know because your feeler gauges will be flat, and not curved at the same radius as the cam lobe.
Knowing this was the case in my engine, I adjusted all my valves to the minimum clearance, knowing the actual valve Clarence would be slightly greater.
My engine can quiet after.
I'm not trying to be a smart a**, just giving you something to keep in mind.
Cheers.
What I noticed is wear.
I couldn't get my valves adjusted right the first time, so when I went back and did it again, I removed each rocker arm and looked at it before adjusting that valve. My intake rocker arms all have a flat spot where the cam shaft pushes down on it (the cam-riding face is convex), and my exhaust rockers all had a groove worn into them at the same place.
This is important to know because your feeler gauges will be flat, and not curved at the same radius as the cam lobe.
Knowing this was the case in my engine, I adjusted all my valves to the minimum clearance, knowing the actual valve Clarence would be slightly greater.
My engine can quiet after.
I'm not trying to be a smart a**, just giving you something to keep in mind.
Cheers.
