may need to start another thread, but here goes.

only had 3 qts of oil, but wanted to check out priming it by hand or with the 3/8". tried for a while by hand, (yes, counter-clockwise), and didn't get anything. tried the 3/8", and it grabbed pretty quickly, but then let off and was turning fairly easily. i could hear what sounded like air being sucked up into the pickup. even though the filter was not primed, i still thought that 3 qts would be enough.

so i put a 4th qt in, and that seemed to do it. now the drill is turning pretty slow, it's an old drill, and not much torque there. the engine was at TDC on the #1 cylinder, and i started to get a good amount of oil at the passenger side exhaust rockers, but that's it. i moved the crank around a bit to where it thought it might line up the hole for the driver side, but didn't get anything there at all.

so what now? try with a stronger drill? i would definitely like to see oil on the other side before i button this thing up. i know the passages in the block and head are clear, i spent a lot of time with brushes cleaning everything out when i did the block.

is it just because i don't have enough power on the drill? i was thinking that even though the cam is grooved, if the hole was lined up for the pass side, that might have filled that side up, path of least resistance. now that it's full, it doesn't take much to push what's there out.

anyway, any suggestions on making sure i have oil on the other side?