yea it still taps.  a lot.  maybe the same if not more than before the valve adjustment...  what can i do about it?

sing along.

Sounds like they weren't adjusted right...  When I had a bug, I did the same thing...  Did the valves and they got WAY worse.

On the bug, the engine had to be STONE COLD...  So, I woke up really early and did it first thing in the morning.  That always worked.

But, I'm no GS expert...  Maybe there's something else going on.

Did you check your clearances after you swapped the shims and rotated the motor over a few times?

Yea noise ... yea ... I run them tight ... Now if you measured after putting in new shims, and then decided the clearance was too less and swapped to even thinner .. OK its too loose ... shims float on oil and seem tighter ... a few mins of running they lose the oil and get very loose ... AKA shim float ...  
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Srinath.

now at first i didnt rotate to get the oil out but soon figured out what i was doing wrong.  so then i redid each one, turning it over 3 times or so for each one.  checked them all at the end and all were fine.  

there is one problem i thought of.  the feeler guages may have been off.  first of all one of the strips was pretty bent up so i didnt use that one to check.  also i had 2 sets of feeler guages of my own.  all three sets measured different.  mine are crappy for sure so i decided it would be best to use the ones in the kit in the end.  

so maybe i should just redo the adjustment and buy a set of guages to make sure they are accurate...

Using the Srinath Kit I see ... That bent guage is the only one you need in reality ... its 1.5 thousandths, worn to 1 thou in the open end ... Yea its curled ... but straighten it and hold it and stuff it in any way ... You dont use that ... you're screwed ... BTW did you drop a shim size in your shims mostly or did you go thicker ... cos if it was rotating freely and you dropped to a thinner shim ... boom ... you're now too loose ...
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Srinath.

well i didnt really pay much attention but if i can recall right, they were too tight to begin with