318 Dis-assemble & Assembled 1st time

Upon close examination after reading Moper's post, it is indeed the intake gasket. I can see where the trace of oil in each intake port making it's way to the combustion chamber. It would of been unusual if the valve guides were worn on just one side using the factory valve train.

Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention. I am running Magnum heads on a LA block. This time I am going to tap and thread the oil gallery that leads to the heads from the deck surface just for insurance...

Anothing thing that I am kinda baffled. The piston from the factory lies 0.085 in the hole. So I figured that these are probably 8.5 pistons. I bought the Sealed Power PN285 pistons with a compression height of 1.741 thinking that I would get a boost in compression. Would you beleive that from the factory for a '85, the compression height is..... yep.... 1.741. Time to look into a new set of pistons. I am not about to go thru all this just to wind up with the same kerosene burning quench...