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Originally Posted by Marrk
Sounds good . . .
. . . except this -->> "--valve adjustment Self-adjusting valves with shims, no service needed" <<-- is a contradiction. If it has shims, then it is manually adjusted by replacement of the shims. And that means working on the heads. Two of them. And you said they were less than easy to reach.
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Well once the shims are in there and correct, they don't ever need to be touched again. Most of that work would be done with the engine out of the car during whatever work you were doing to the heads.
I'm not sure about the valve cover gaskets with this motor and accessibility, but once they are off you should be able to access the valvetrain without removing the motor. But I never saw any sort of valve adjustments ever done on the newer motors unless it was a major head job of some kind, some sort of large scale rebuild like a headgasket job or blown shortblock.
FYI, removing the motor entirely isn't that difficult of a job.