Correct Oil Filter for SB

Looking back on the initial start-up of this engine, we had some trouble getting oil pressure. We put a priming shaft with a 1/2 HP drill motor in the distibutor hole and ran it wide open and got no oil pressure. We then started cranking the engine and running the drill motor we got oil up top. It seems we should have gotten a trickle with just the priming shaft and drill motor. I thought at the time something must be pretty tight.


bwhitejr

When you say you got no oil pressure do you mean no reading on a gauge or just no oil up top? Reason I ask is because unless you have the engine in just exactly the right position the holes in the cam bearings aren't lined up with the holes in the cam that feeds oil up top. That's why when you spun the engine over you got oil up top.