AMC oiler kit?

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 A: I'm trying to recall who sells the oiler kit. I'm sending this to my 
other
email I send out to the AMC-list from. {IIRC, Nick is the one with the kit.}
The kit requires drilling into the oil gallery under the intake and running
a line from near the oil pump directly to feed all the mains as fast as
possible. I have cleaned out the galleries without doing this fix by running
warm solvent through under pressure for a short time (I recall going to
lunch while it was being flushed after being hottanked) This of course was
back when rebuilders charged for their time to dealerships and wanted to
make as sure as possible it wouldn't go bad (or they'd lose their bread and
butter!)


Jim Blair wrote:

"It's unlikely they did the oil gallery rear main oiler line (which is the
reason many AMC motor's bearings need rebuilding in the first place, due to
narrowed oil galleries, like clogged arteries), but they could also have
skimped on the cam bearings too."

Please provide more detail on the problem with the rear main oiler line.  I
have the motor from my bro-in-law's '89 GW at the machine shop right now.
It threw the #3 rod, & all the rod bearings showed significant wear.  The
mains didn't look too bad.  He plans to keep this truck indefinately; so I
want to make sure this motor gets built correctly.

Thanks,

Michael Keith
Houston, TX

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