Valve Lash Adjustment

Sounds like your making progress Wazoo. I too have had some bad Comp lifters but they were flat tappets. Got one really bad set then the replacements they sent me worked good at first but after 500 miles started bleeding down bad and rattled in the mornings for about 30 seconds. Finally by 700 miles they wouldn't stop rattling. I took the comp stuff out and put in a Lunati and haven't had a minutes worth of trouble. That was 2 yrs. ago.