Strutmaster801

I have an EA81 with hydraulic lifters out of my 1986 brat. It had some serious clanging when I bought it for $250 I pulled the motor and found that someone had attempted to adjust the valves and lost two of the nuts and lock washers for the valve rocker adjustment also one of the retainer clips on one lifter was missing I found that in pieces. So I pulled all the lifters, took them apart and cleaned them up and replaced all the retainer clips with snap rings so they are the same. Since I have to now adjust the valves I'm finding it hard to get it just right. I have all of them set as close to 0.002 as I can get. When I check the other side that had not been messed with they are much tighter with almost no room to loosen them up. And ideas on how I should adjust these would be much appreciated.

That's kind of what I've been seeing. Thanks for the reply.

I'm having a hard time finding replacement hydraulic lifters for my ea81 out of a 1986 brat. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.