I just showed my girl a couple videos of what I will be doing when I replace her valve stems seals on her 5.7. She had heard me talking about keeping the valves up with either air or rope/silicone tubing. I showed her the two variations via you tube. She will be my official assistant the day I do the seals replacement. I told her I will be using the rope/tubing method because of no hose in the way and no air compressor running noise. She said, "You are going to do that on all 16 valves?" "Yes I am dear". She will fret and worry till we do a few starts and the "blue smoke out the exhaust" is gone.
Opinions from those that have done the job. Adjust valve lash? I tighten till there is no play in the push rod. No slop back and forth and no spin. Then I do a full tightening turn on the rocker arm nut. Different methods?