EMERGENCY question on Valve Adjustment -please help!

[green536@hotmail.com (Chris DeLong)]

no worky dude. valve seats and angle and cut and all that shit are a factor 
in a valve adjustment. You will need to do the measurements and adjust the 
valves on the one with the tight exhaust valves.

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>Alright, here's the long story short:  I have two JH 1.8's, one has bad 
>rings yet perfectly adjusted valves, and the other has GREAT compression 
>but all the exhaust valves are out of adjustment.  Already tried shim 
>swapping, can't get it right still. So can I take the cam and all the shims 
>out of the motor with the bad rings yet perfect valve adjustment, and put 
>them into the engine with good compression in the exact same order?  The 
>head's are SLIGHTLY different, one is an '83 and one an '84, the part 
>numbers are the same except for the letter at the end:  026 103 373F and 
>the '83 is 026 103 373H.  Is that a problem?Head swapping is NOT an option 
>due to the fact that I don't want to have to port and polish again-  please 
>help, on Friday I have to have my Scirocco out of the garage to get to a 
>family reunion.
>
>thanks so much to any who may reply,
>
>Rob
>
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