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Re: big block engine oil priming
[Re: BADDBOB]
#970258
04/10/11 09:45 AM
04/10/11 09:45 AM
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Posts: 859 VA
AtomicDog
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super stock
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VA
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You can easily pre-oil your motor with a pre-oil tool and a good HD reversible drill. The procedure is to remove the distributor and the oil pump drive. Insert the pre-oil shaft down into the motor and engage it into your oil pump. Connect your drill to the shaft and run your drill in reverse (run the drill forward for a small block) to pre-oil the motor. As a warning, make sure that you have either a guage or a block-off hooked up at the rear of the block (1/4" pipe threads where you normally connect the oil pressure sending unit) or when you pre-oil the motor, oil will shoot out of that hole all over. Here is a link to the pre-oil tool: http://chucker54.stores.yahoo.net/oilpumprimto.html
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Re: big block engine oil priming
[Re: mikemee1331]
#970262
04/10/11 10:31 AM
04/10/11 10:31 AM
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Posts: 36,041 Lincoln Nebraska
RapidRobert
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Circle Track
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Lincoln Nebraska
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b 4 you start turn the crank to TDC on the timing marks w the rotor under #6 so the passages will b lined up to oil the pass head. Use 2 pieces of straightened coat hangar w a little L bend on the end to lift the inter gear up but b 4 you do if you are comfortable w the plug wire routing/rotor/inter gear clocking note the orientation of the slot so you can return it to that position w you are all done w both heads (w the crank turned back 1/4 turn CCW from the 1&1/4 CW turns from the 2nd preoiling). Then preoil it till you get pressure then stop & turn the crank 1&1/4 turns CW & repeat to oil the dr head. EDIT might use Andy's tip of starting w a speed handle to make sure the pump is free/not binding. When done if the intergear will not seat all the way may need to (re)pull it & w the primer rod turn the hex on the pump slightly so the intergear hex end will fit. MORE EDIT. going back 1/4 turn (from (1&1/4) set the dist in so the rotor is under #1 wire
Last edited by RapidRobert; 04/10/11 01:54 PM.
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Re: big block engine oil priming
[Re: BADDBOB]
#970264
04/10/11 01:20 PM
04/10/11 01:20 PM
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Posts: 21,085 Niles , Ohio
therocks
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oh wait.but hey.lets see.oh yeah.
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 21,085
Niles , Ohio
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Make sure you have a good drill.I use an old 1/2 inch one.It still loads down when the pressure builds.When I did my 440 I had the V covers off.Big mistake as I had about a quart of oil on the floor real quick.Now I use an old set that the centers are cut out of.Rocky
Chrysler Firepower
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