For adjusting valves easily and quickly, with no rhymes to remember,
here's a method I've used with good success.
#1, pull all the plugs. This will greatly simplify turning the engine
over by hand.
#2, pull the valve cover and loosen all of the valve adjuster nuts a
flat or two.
#3, rotate the engine by hand until any valve(s) is fully open, and
adjust the clearance on the neighboring vavle(s) in the same
cylinder(s).
You'll have to turn the engine over two times to get all of the valves.
You'll know that you're done when none of the adjusters are loose anymore.
It's easy and fun and shouldn't take more than 20 minutes.
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