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If you're comfortable removing the valve cover and know what to look for I'd say yeah it's easy enough to inspect. If you're going to do it you might as well check/adjust the valves while you're there.

 

dennis hall replaced mine when they did my valve adjustment.

 

none were cracked they were just a bit worn at 75K on the clock so he went ahead and replaced them. Better safe then sorry and no I kept AP1 retainers. As for the service. It was excellent. They kept my car overnight and had it tucked away in the garage. I got a free loaner car (it was gross but hey it was free) and they everything done the next day. With the adjustment and 75K mile tune up i think it was 375 or so. Not to bad consider WSH wanted 380 for just the tune up.

If you have a high mileage car bought used I would strongly recomment the valve adjustment. While my valves were off very little the reseating made a big difference on the feel of the car. Gas mileage was slightly better, start up was easier, and the engine in general felt much smoother.

 

My 02's close to clicking over 23k what milage should I consider having it checked out for a service? Go by the manual? The manual don't really look like theres a lot to the first few services. This Hall fellow is this a garage or dealership?

 

garage. I can almost see his business from my desk at work . He is on N Peters past the chevy dealer ship on the left. kinda looks like you hafta turn into the fire station to get there.


..........I wish my car only had 23K on it

 

That's a tough question to answer definitively. If it were me if I didn't hear unusual noise from the valvetrain or notice any performance issues I wouldn't worry about it for maybe another 10K or so.

But if the car has been mis-shifted and overreved you might want to have the retainers checked out.