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

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

That only applies to the first generation of shaft mount rockers (1964-70 
199 and 232 engines). If the push rods have holes in the ends, then it 
already oils through the push rods and this will not do anything for you. 
Also, if the oil pressure light flickers at hot idle, your cam bearings 
(and maybe main and rod bearings) are shot and the engine needs come out 
and get rebuilt.

It sounds to me like the engine wasn't assembled correctly or the wrong 
parts were used. The only way to know is going to be to tear it down and 
see what's wrong.

Matt

At 07:11 AM 2/8/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> 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

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