Valve Clearance Adjustment on 1990 PCM 351W

He's probably asking because of the thread in the link

If it's fixed Buck, then you'll be spending a lot of time needlessly doing what you want to do.

If it's making noises like before or while running, take it out on the water and run it around at speed, get the oil hot and if you have a stuck lifter(s), it just might unstick itself. It did sit for 6 years after all 

Took the slack out of the accelerator pump linkage and adjusted mixture screws.
Am going to check float levels and install a 6.5 power valve.

I don't know what your different and I guess, super secret method was, but I think there's a pretty good chance that it's been discussed here on CCF in the past .

In gear will usually end up with richer idle settings and you'll have less chance of a hesitation on takeoff.

You mention the front float being way off but not which way. If it was low, you could have hesitation because of that.

Since you have a pretty level mounted engine with the 1.23 transmission your front and rear floats should be good if they're both adjusted so the top of the float is parallel to the top of the bowl when you hold it upside down

LOL   When I was doing the head replacements, I looked all over the place on the forum, read up on how people scribed the rods in order to measure them, etc.  I tried that, and it sucked, so I talked to the mechanic who told me an easy 'failsafe' way to adjust them.  Worked like a charm.  I agree it was discussed in the pass on CFF because I posted the whole head replacement and lifter adjustment...    I'm just lazy and don't want to look for the post cuz I don't recall what the thread was called.  But I have the procedure on my laptop if anyone wants it.  Dang it, now I'm going to have to look for the thread!!!!  

Well there we go, I knew I could get you to post it 

I wish the thread I had posted it in had been called something like hydraulic lifter adjustment or something like that.  I only found it because I did a search of all posts by me.  That's not going to help too many people out, nor does pushrod shimming...