rafe850

I recently did a head gasket replacement on my 1998 civic ex, replaced all seals, including oil control orfice oring, lapped valves, new timing belt, and adjusted intake and exhaust valves per the specifications but they sound a little loud, are they not getting enough oil, or is the adjustment possibly off
I did not disasemble the rocker arm and lost motion, assemblies, just removed it as a unit checked that all components in the assemblies moved smoothly

did not remove the vtec selonoid or valve off the head

compression tested at about 180 psi all cylinders

intake valves
specs .007 - .009 (set snug .008)

Ex Valves
specs .009 - .011 (set snug .010)

does this all look correct?

It's my first job like this, to my surprise the engine runs very well, considering I had to read a repair manual to do this job.

just not sure about the valve adjustment, maybe I can tweek them a little one way or the other to make them sound a little less noisy. is that possible?

Any input would be appreciated, thanks

Former User

Post a video of the noise.

You can connect a pressure gauge where the oil pressure switch is to measure the oil pressure. There may be a diagram in the FAQs sticky.

Texas4door

If all else fails, have a pro adjust the valves. I eventually had it done by my grand-dad's mechanic after doing a head swap and he fixed in 30 minutes what I'd been wrestling with for several hours ^^;;
(adjusting valves can be some tedious ****!)

"Sometimes you just gotta have a certain feel for things" he told me
Pretty cool old dude ^^