Re: [Amc-list] 195.6 OHV Oil Return Line - just use a pre-cut brake line?

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

Om thje 196 you will still have to have the external line going up to the T in the head. That's the ONLY feed for the rocker shaft. The line feeds a passage that goes up one of the rocker shaft supports. There is NO OIL FEED IN THE BLOCK like on the shaft 199/232/258. Your 65 block may or may not have the line just above the oil galley (off the front cam bearing) to feed the head, it might have a T in the head with the line from the galley feeding both the head and oil filter. Also, if you have the line off the cam bearing are you sure the first cam bearing has an oil feed hole, and the cam journal has the slot (or a flat "side")? If not feed off the galley. Replacement cams should all have the slot if it were up to me, they would work with either oil feed system. Some don't though, and the system just needs changing (easy to do!). 

You could just remove the plunger and spring from the pressure relief valve in the block -- I think that's what I'd do. 


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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:25:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>

That's all good information, but I'll bend the topic a little and ask another question:   I'm putting a 1965 oil pump on a 1963 block.  Of course that pump has the full flow filter which fits onto the pump.  I don't plan to have any external oil lines.  The only strange thing is that I'll have two oil pressure relief valves on the engine...one built into the pump and one in the oil gallery on the side of the engine.  I'm using the 1965 cylinder head with the oil feed hole up into the first rocker shaft pedestal.  I'm hoping that the internal lubrication system will work.  I know the machine shop installed the cam bearings correctly because I checked the hole alignment while assembling the engine.  Do you see any problems with this arrangement?

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