musicman76
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- 96-97 ford aerostar
I had a leaking head gasket in my '96 aero so i've torn it all down to the short block. First time i've seen this engine disassembled. Anyway, I lopped all the valves since the heads were off, amazingly clean which surprised me. Then I put the heads back together and was just checking things out and noticed that the valve stems are at different heights, maybe up to 1/8 of an inch from high to low. So, my question is, do the lifters compensate for this, since there is no adjustments to the valve train, or do the valves need to be replaced, possibly the rocker assembly also? No noise came from the engine before the tear down.