Well you hit the nail on the head. I adjusted everything and then I replaced all the pushrods. I only needed to replace one, but I got a whole set of oem case pushrods cheap. The engine was already assembled. So I just replaced all the pushrods. Nothing seemed funny but I didn't check clearances. Turns out pushrods were slightly dufferent and all the valves were open. I adjusted the valves and bam. First try things popped to life. The issue was I could not turn the motor to adjust the valves by hand and there is no room or place to stick a wrench on the crank withought taking the nose off and getting the hydrolic pump out of the way. I wrestled with it and finally was able to set it tdc #1 compression and rotate it 360 and set the other half of the valves. Purring great, I leak like everything, but it is running very nice. No smoke or knocking. Taking it through the break in procedure that came with the instructions for the piston and sleeves. What a big job
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