Can't find misfire

Serj22 said
I've taken the head off three or four times in my appartment parking lot. I also built my entire slant six turbo setup there. The head usually takes about an hour, I take the top bolt out of the alternator bracket, loosen the bottom one, take the belt off and slack the alternator, and then pull the manifolds. Make sure you replace that little bypass section of hose when you put the new head on, it's a good time to do it. Also stick a wire down the cooling passages while you have it off.

.010 and .020 are slant six respective settings on valves, and you should set them basic static, then fire the engine up, and reset while it's running. It's a lot of fun, and super quick.

Did you try backing the valve off a little? Say .040 and seeing if the misfire straightened out?
I've dealt with the burned valve in the past, which had me pulling the head the first time, but then it also had a broken in half pushrod so I only had 4 cylinders for a minute...

This isn't the first bit of engine work I've done here, this is the same job I did to my truck, but for a different reason and it was a V engine so the head was smaller and lighter. But, I don't have a lift and I want the car back on the road sooner. I tried backing off the valve, but it didn't change anything. With the head off, it looked fine to me, but I could hear hissing in the exhaust pipe when I pressurized that cylinder. So I'm already done putting a new valve in and I installed new valve steam seals on all of them since most were gone or hard. The head is sitting on the block, but I'm waiting to pick up the other engine tomorrow because I want to use the manifolds that are on it. I found that my exhaust leak was not a cracked manifold like I was told. Whoever had replaced the head gasket a few years ago had broken the bolts that hold the intake and exhaust together. And before I finish putting everything back together, I'd like to clean up some wiring I did and maybe install an oil pressure gauge as well as an added temperature gauge. The oil light on the car does work, but I would prefer a gauge so I now what it's doing. The temp gauge on the cluster works, but the new one came with the oil gauge because it's the standard set of three: oil, temp, and volts. So, it should be back running tomorrow evening.