Re: IML: 318 oiling issue - thanks everyone!

[Jeff Ingraham <jeff_ingraham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all that wrote to help!
Looks like I will be concentrating on the rocker arm!
first I am going to work on the stuff from sitting all
these years then back together and hope all is well!
i will let you know how things turn out!
Thanks again!
Jeff



--- mike and linda sutton <mikanlin62@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Thanks Dick B, you saved me a ton of typing.  Its
> the rocker arm, the oiling 
> hole in the rocker isnt indexed with the one in the
> head so it isnt getting 
> past out thru the rockers.  My first thought was a
> cam bearing indexed 
> improperly, but unless the cam bearings were
> replaced thats not the issue. 
> Otherwise the analysis of the oiling system flow is
> spot on, which leads to  the rocker shaft
orientation.
> 
> Quite often people will remove the shaft and rockers
> as a unit and then just 
> bolt them back on later,  that makes it a little
> harder to get them out of 
> sync.  IF...if  they were removed and disassembled
> then the likelyhood of 
> the shaft itself being incorrectly oriented
> increases.  At this point, id 
> look at that shaft first and while I was at it, also
> make sure the rockers 
> are oriented properly on the shaft - though that
> will not affect the oiling, 
> there is a definite left and right relationship of
> the rocker arms on the  shafts.
> 
> Mikey
> 62 Crown Coupe


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