I'm just curious, did the slant ever come out with self adjusting valves or did advance auto pull a fast one on me? All I've ever seen had the rocker arm with the adjusting screw, that is until I got this engine. It's a 81 engine by the way.

An '81 engine uses hydraulic lifters....no adjustment for the valves. I believe they started using them in '80 or so.

There was a small test run of hydraulic-equipped slants in '78, and then no more until the '81 model year, when all slants got hydraulic lifters.

Yea, all 20,000 of them. Anyone ever find one? According to the service bulletion they were all decked out Volaré/Aspen models with Air Conditioning.

well the rocker arm assembly on my slant has no adjusting screws, so I guess it has the hydralic lifters you speak of. It's been a good motor so far and it has never smoked. The reason I asked was I was wondering if this would have anything to do with my run on problem. Thanks for the info. ole_blue