Any one interested in the oiling mods I did?

gregcon said
Exactly. Most writer of any ilk are people who really don't know anything about their topic...they skim the surface. How many times have I read a book where the hero drives a car with turbo-blowers and shoots a semi-automatic Colt 45 revolver?

TV is even worse....just look at the tools on TV....if that guy Freiburger were any worse a mechanic he'd be dead.

YR...if you go to 5/8", then you must need to go to a 1/2NPT thread on the back of the block? Or are you drilling from the front? The back plug is 3/8NPT which would get wiped out by a 5/8 drill bit.

Yup, 1/2 pipe in the back and I ream it out from each end. I just make sure the reamer clears the last lifter bore and then stop and go at it from the other end.

Then cut the tube just long enough so it goes past the lifter bore. I’ve taken some stuff apart where the two tubes met and were smashed together, closing off about 20% of the gallery.