To me, even when the engine is "dry" the spinning method was very subjective. Having oil on the pivot points makes it even harder. I used a pushrod up/down method to find zero. Jiggled the push rod up and down, and turned rocker nut until i couldn't jiggle no more. You only do each rocker once. If you are going back to this method, you must loosen all rockers to above the zero point and turn the engine over to re-pressurize the lifters.
Even trying to follow this, I found a couple of rockers that were too tight when I re-did with the hot method. I am suspecting you have something else going on. The hot method "should" be obvious when above zero lash. A too tight lifter shouldn't make noise. If lifter is bottomed, then would expect more of a pounding sound, until the push rod bent or rocker broke.
PS: Way back in your thread, I think you discussed something with shimming the rockers or polylocks??? I'm too lazy to search back through the 17 pages, could you refresh my memory on what that was, and what the resolution was? Or maybe I have someone elses issue cross-linked in my memory.
