What specifications did you use for the valves?

It's very easy to make an error with the clearances..........exhaust and intake valves are different............and you're not doing them in order. Without a paper sheet with the valves listed..........you'll definitely make an error.

0.1 mm intake, 0.35 mm exhaust on a cold engine. I did all the exhaust valves first, then intake, so I don't think I adjusted an exhaust valve to 0.1 mm or vice versa. I did them in firing order, that is, I adjusted the valve whose cam lobe was next in line, saving me from having to wear out my arm rotating the crankshaft.

The only thing to do now is recheck them, which I am about to do. Could the noises be an intake valve that is too loose (too much clearance). On one or two, the 0.1 mm feeler slid in very easily, but I didn't want to mess with it, so I left them alone. But then, I never got these noises before...

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cbjukraine
'84 300D

From the front of the engine..........counting valves from front to rear.........which are the exhaust valves?

from front to back: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9
intakes: 2, 3, 6, 7, 10

I printed out the FSM page that shows the layout and marked off the ones I had completed. I wasn't flying blind...

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cbjukraine
'84 300D

Yep, you've got them right.

There still must be some error..........it's easy to do.........I made a mistake on the sequence when I put the head back on the 617. It had a funny tapping sound that was surely abnormal. Setting an intake to .35 can do that.........

On your situation, it almost appears that an intake is not fully closing.........meaning the adjustment is way out of spec. Are you positive that you're placing the feeler gauge between the camshaft lobe and the rocker arm?