318 LA rebuild after losing a valve seat

Think about it if you have too much bearing in there and you start drawing it up snug, you can push the bearing insert out of round giving you an inaccurate reading of your plasti-gauge clearance test.

Different opinions on this but the .001 clearance is too tight, .002 is ideal.

Even online there are some that say .0015 is less than ideal for a street engine. Others say .003 for the racing community is OK as they are using the high volume oil pumps to feed them efficiently.

Sure there are lots of opinions on this.
.002 ths. clearance would be my choice for a basic street engine