Boy, that is a delayed update but appreciated. Good outcome except for the last part. Yes, if things are close, you have to mimic a solid lifter with the slack in the valvetrain juuust all taken up.
BTW, I just caught this phrase from the 1st post: "made my day a happy go shitty day". Might be a typo but I think I am going to use this phrase.... whenever my wife doesn't have her hearing aids in LOL