re: 1971 Turbo Gremlin (oil to rocker shaft head)

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Clarence, check this site out:
http://www.mattsoldcars.com/techinfo/boltmod.shtml
This is the best answer to increasing the oil supply to an AMC six
rocker shaft head. It came out of AMC after the external oil line patch,
and is why you rarely, if ever, see the clutzy external line. If you
were getting plenty oil before, I'd pull the rocker shaft and check the
line in the shaft pedestal and the block for restrictions. Might be some
trash in there, or you might have a modified bolt and stuck it in the
wrong hole, or accidentally replaced it? 

> My next problem may be getting enough oil to the head of my 258. 
> Before the rebuild I had large amounts of
> oil to the head, ever since then it's hardly enough, the passages in
the
> head are clean, it's the supply coming out of the block, maybe the cam
> bearing didn't get installed right or something. What's the best fix?
An
> external oil line or installing a 4.0 head with pushrod oiling?

MSgt Frank Swygert