Only asking as I started my engine rebuild yesterday. Took the cam off after numbering the caps and putting them away safe and stupidly turned the head upside-down to see if all the valves were seating correctly... you know what happened next...
lol weve all done it luckily mine fell out as i was turning the head over onto some newspaper so they all fell out in order and i was able to put them back in the correct order. hopefully some of the forum gurus can confirm this but im sure though they are all machined to within the same tolerances/sizes so pop them back in and they should be ok.
Heh, I know, I'm a tit. Just wondered if they'd have worn in a way specific to each tappet and getting them back in the wrong order would knacker that? Last engine I built was a hot Ford Crossflow and stuff like that didn't matter. Because there weren't any tappets.
I know what you mean about them wearing in a specific way, but since, when you fit new ones, you just pop them in any hole, I can`t see it being a problem.
