Was a nice day here as well, melted the ice off the steps.
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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GO STEELER'S!!!!
Wanting to ensure I do this right.
I have about 90 psi on the oil pressure gauge.
Been running the drill/ priming rod for just over an hour and half with 1/4 turn on the crank every 15 minutes.
Oil filter is warm
Still no oil at the lifters... am I just being impatient?
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The rocker shafts could be bolted on wrong. Pull the shafts and then spin it. You may get oiled.
90 minutes seems quite excessive to not be getting oil. Something is blocking somewhere
OK... so they would have been that way from the prior owner then I guess. ?
Let me see, if I remember correctly, the notch on the shaft goes down and to the back on the passenger side and to the top and forward on the driver's side. You may need to look it up to be sure.
This was a "running engine" so I'm confused.... but, that's kinda how this whole thing has gone. Thanks Mike
It should be ok but that much pressure and turning the engine, you should have oil up top.
Stupid question. Head gasket installed on wrong side block off an oil way? I know it’s possible on certain engines but can’t recall on a small block
Head gaskets have oiling holes on both sides. No left or right.
Yeah...I replaced the intake, but the heads are as they were when I bought the motor.
Quite the collapse by Detroit...
agree 17 points OUCH!!
Should see oil within a minute, especially with 90 psi. I would pull rocker shafts
I never got why mopar timed the rocker arm oiling. I know what it does and how it works. But. My Magnum based 408 oils thru pushrods. No over oiling....
I wonder if timed was only on purpose. A hole drilled in a cam bearing journal gives it a squirt every half turn. If you groove the bearing you will get constant flow but they must have decided it was too much oil on top.
Oil through the pushrods is timed as well. You get a squirt only when the lifter pumps it up.
Hey Tim
May be as simple as turning while running the drill to oil? I've been turning off the drill to advance the crank.
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<~~~~~ remembering the first time he adjusted the lifters on his SBF and the horriffic mess it made. 
I would try that, your quarter turn might never open the oil passage.
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