Oil leak behind the cam

Righty Tighty said

Thanks, hope it didn't seem like I was ignoring the advice. Sometimes I need to be slapped with an idea a few times before it sinks through my thick skull.

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Here's a photo. Note the oil holes. When the holes like up with the oil holes in the cam bearings, oil travels through. The only time you can get oil to the top while priming is if you can find the spot where the holes line up or when you spin past them it will spurt oil to the heads. That's what it does when it's running. In a perfect world, the cam companies would groove the bearing surface for a constant flow. Maybe that would put too much oil up top. Those Chrysler engineers were pretty smart.