No oil on pass side lifters
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No oil on pass side lifters
Running the drill with engine on the stand trying to pump up oil pressure and Pass side is dry. Just wanting to get a preset on the rockers before dropping in the car. The Drivers side has tons of oil coming up through the push rods and lifters. Pass side is dry as can be this was supposed to be a simple head swap to Vortecs. Need HELP ASAP!
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Dave
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Dave
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Re: No oil on pass side lifters
Sounds like besides just merely wasting your time shamelessly with all that, you don't have a distributor in it.
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Trying to PRIME the engine as well since it is out of the car on the stand. So if I put it in the car and try to start with no oil coming through that is the best option?
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Re: No oil on pass side lifters
Yes.
The front-rear oil passage that goes through all the right bank lifters, also goes through the distributor body. The 2 raised "bosses" on the outside of the dist plug the hole in the block and complete the passage around the dist.
Without a dist, you have a MASSIVE internal oil leak. All the oil you can possibly pump, just spills out the end of the passage.
You'll have oil reaching the pass side lifters once you put the dist in.
The front-rear oil passage that goes through all the right bank lifters, also goes through the distributor body. The 2 raised "bosses" on the outside of the dist plug the hole in the block and complete the passage around the dist.
Without a dist, you have a MASSIVE internal oil leak. All the oil you can possibly pump, just spills out the end of the passage.
You'll have oil reaching the pass side lifters once you put the dist in.
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Have a nice little unit made from a dist for just this job. Was told I need to turn crank 180 for other side oiling.
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Re: No oil on pass side lifters
I quit with that futility after the first couple dozen motors I built... after that I realized that the oil would reach that passage within a couple of seconds of the engine running anyway, and just because I happened to have access to the pump drive rod at the moment, didn't make that moment any different from any other time I'd start it up at any point in the rest of its life. Just a total waste of time.
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I quit with that futility after the first couple dozen motors I built... after that I realized that the oil would reach that passage within a couple of seconds of the engine running anyway, and just because I happened to have access to the pump drive rod at the moment, didn't make that moment any different from any other time I'd start it up at any point in the rest of its life. Just a total waste of time.
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