[Gordo2]

My tips,

Take your time. You are not competing to be on a crew. That said, I'm going with leaving a day for your first valve job.

When adjusting your first valve take some time to play around with it to get the feel for how tight it needs to be. I found that I could pretty much get the correct gap by the feel of how tight I turned my screwdriver with the feeler in place. This helps alot when you get to the back of the engine where you can't see what you are doing.

I backed the nut off about a full rotation or two prior to inserting the blade. This made inserting much easier (especially on the first one, where you aren't sure). Once I got the blade in place I could tighten the screw down to the the point that I could tell it was just beginning to bind on the blade. From there I would move the blade in and out and make very minor adjustments as required.

Good luck,

Gordo