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So the gap is too big?
It looks like they're not familiar with that adjustment geometry specific to this engine at Newman. With a conventional screw type it could accommodate that change. Worth taking into consideration for anyone else in same situation, unfortunately of little help here.
You could fit what the yanks call a lash cap on the valve stem, its like a small hardened dustbin that fits over the end of the valve stem.
Your right BryanI should really let Newmans sort it, but if you ever dealt with Ken Newman you would know why I'm buying a new follower instead. I have managed to measure the cam whilst in place in the engine and its fine. Ken Newman mentioned grinding down and welding on a pad if the followers didn't clean up. Looks to me like they may have ground it down and forgot to fit the pad and just sent them out like that. That story would fit as that Ken guy was truly hopeless.