hey everyone, i'm new to this forum, I have a 62 f-100 long "wrong" bed with a 223 and a 4 speed, all original... I got the truck last summer and have slowly been working on it, replacing old worn out parts... today I adjusted the valves, the valves weren't very noisy before, but I just rebuilt the ignition system and carb, as well as surfacing the manifolds and putting all new gaskets, so why not adjust the valves... So on my oil bath filter, it says that both intake and exhaust lash should be .019 hot, so I use the same rule of thumb I've always heard, and since my engine was cold I added 2 thousands, for .021. I adjust all the valves, and it starts and all is well... until I drive it, then the valves get very noisy, I thought I had an exhaust leak because the clicking was so noisy... so, off comes the valve cover and I adjust all the valves down to .019, even hot the valve lash was still .021 from the first adjustment... I thought, "that's weird, usually the valves tighten a couple of thou when it gets hot, which it was... So I adjust all the valves again, this time with the engine hot, making sure each one was at .019... I start it with no valve cover this time to make sure I don't have a noise, and everything sounds great, until opened the throttle a couple of times, and then back to more clicking noise...
2 questions:
1: is .019 what I should be adjusting the HOT valves to?
2: has anyone had such an experience when adjusting the valves on their 223?
I'm waking up first thing tomorrow morning to once again take the valve cover off and see what the hell is going on. the most confusing part to me is that it would idle perfectly fine, but they would get noisy after the engine went a little faster and the noise never goes away, and this is after I've driven the truck around for the past few months with no valve adjustment and relatively no noise.
thanks for the help!
2 questions:
1: is .019 what I should be adjusting the HOT valves to?
2: has anyone had such an experience when adjusting the valves on their 223?
I'm waking up first thing tomorrow morning to once again take the valve cover off and see what the hell is going on. the most confusing part to me is that it would idle perfectly fine, but they would get noisy after the engine went a little faster and the noise never goes away, and this is after I've driven the truck around for the past few months with no valve adjustment and relatively no noise.
thanks for the help!