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no oil on rockers....help!?!?!?!?!

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Old 11-19-2006, 06:22 PM
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no oil on rockers....help!?!?!?!?!

ok the engine was built prolly a year ago and has sat covered up and lubed and spun about once a month well im gettin oil out of the rockers on #7 but those are the only ones the rockers were used in my old engine same block just a different combo and they worked great with that engine my gauge is reading 60 plus pounds of oil i've built many engines and never had a problem like this....... any ideas??????
Old 11-19-2006, 06:51 PM
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How long you let it run. On a fresh motor I've seen it take two minutes or more of running to ge tthe air through all the pushrods.
Old 11-19-2006, 07:11 PM
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i let it get up to temp while me and a friend had 2 oil cans keepin them lubed
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do you mean no oil or no oil is squirting across to the inner fenders? there isn't always oil squirting across to the fenders.
Old 11-20-2006, 04:41 AM
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i mean no oil except for #7
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