Oil pressure is great. Feel test is hard to do, It's hard to get the two lifters that are soft coming out of the motor (because they are depressing a valve) to pump up.

I'm a little worried about running it with the current situation. A few weeks ago (after swapping lifters) I had an occasion when it sounded as if a piston hit a valve a few times. This was when the engine was still cold and I cracked the throttle open a hair. After idling for 5 mins and warming up this didn;t happen again. So my belief is that there is a stickly valve. However, as I said before, leak down is OK and the machine shop checked head and claims that every valve is good, no indication of a strike, etc.

So I'm . What to do next?

At least I'm providing good business for the gasket makers.