Break In Disaster????????

nm9stheham said
OK< I was wondering if you had Edelbrocks, which tend to pool oil up in the heads a bit. A/J (I think) observed that the drain slots were higher up in them than stock. BTW, do you have a working PCV system on the engine? It looks like you are using pretty tall valve cover gaskets, and they might get pushed out of alignment pretty easily with crankcase pressure and cause a leak.

On the rocker shafts, were the mounting holes top and bottom 0.375" diameter? Any larger hole on the one on the oil supply pedestal, and one of the oil restrictions to the shaft will be gone.

AJ/FormS said
Yeah that was me. I cut some drain-channels back there cuz a lot of oil was pooling back there. As delivered there were no drains there at all. It was not creating a leak tho.I'm very sure the puddle was not an issue.

I did have to notch my aluminum (circa 1970) covers over the intake runners, to get them down enough to seal.

Well, i finally got around to pulling the pump yesterday and it looked fine. I used Karls reference for pulling it apart and it looked like it was installed correctly based on his pictures, seemed to move fine. The one thing i did notice was that the valce looked like it wasnt recessed enough towards the back, about an fat 1/16, i am hoping maybe that was the problem. I went out and bought another one, put it in but ran into another issue putting the engine back in. To be honest i really feel like nothing has been solved because i didnt find anything. If the valve was sticking wouldnt you get low oil pressure, not high? Also, could head gaskets play with this? I bought a new set of felpro so i can ditch those victor's and were tightened and retightened numerous times.

Jake