Been trying for 3-4 days to get consistent lift readings. Before I toss in the towel and say close enough, can You post pics of the fixture you used to measure your lift.

TIA,

Carlos

I used something very similar to this:

https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Base-Adjust...la-570454097984

I bolted a steel plate to the head intake face, and then used my dial gauge on an arm with a magnetic base. I also cycled the crank through a complete turn after making any changes before measuring lift.

You want to be sure that the indicator is parallel to the valve stem.

Used a setup similar to Bkrantz


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I'm kinda cheep, so here's mine, bought dial indicator off Amazon & fabed the wood block. Had a metal angle piece in my junk pile
Had to position indicator tip carefully on the retainer:

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