engine prelube oiling
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From: loxahatchee fla
engine prelube oiling
engine prelube oiling is a necessity to insure instant oil pressure when starting a new engine,this will greatly help prevent wipeing cam lobes and bearings while you try and start your new engine
first thing to do it correctly you need this tool (I always weld a socket to the top to make it easy to attach a ratchet) http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerc...881&prmenbr=76
because a rod or a screw driver can,t seal the lifter oil gallery passages like a distributor body does, and yes to do it corectly you need to turn the engine over by hand useing a breaker bar on the crankshaft pulley retaining bolt about 6 full times slowly while your buddy supplies oil pressure by turning the oil pump primeing tool as fast as he can clockwise. keep turning the engine and primeing untill oil flows from ...EVERY LAST ROCKERARM..if not find out why not..BEFORE STARTING THE ENGINE!!
you can make one(a primeing tool) from an old distributor if you have one, by removeing the gear teeth with a belt sander and almost every part from the distributor body and welding a socket on the distributors main shaft so that when its inserted it seals the lifter gallery with the distributors body so you get oil pressure in both lifter gallerys while you turn the distributor shaft with a ratchet or a drill
first thing to do it correctly you need this tool (I always weld a socket to the top to make it easy to attach a ratchet) http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerc...881&prmenbr=76
because a rod or a screw driver can,t seal the lifter oil gallery passages like a distributor body does, and yes to do it corectly you need to turn the engine over by hand useing a breaker bar on the crankshaft pulley retaining bolt about 6 full times slowly while your buddy supplies oil pressure by turning the oil pump primeing tool as fast as he can clockwise. keep turning the engine and primeing untill oil flows from ...EVERY LAST ROCKERARM..if not find out why not..BEFORE STARTING THE ENGINE!!
you can make one(a primeing tool) from an old distributor if you have one, by removeing the gear teeth with a belt sander and almost every part from the distributor body and welding a socket on the distributors main shaft so that when its inserted it seals the lifter gallery with the distributors body so you get oil pressure in both lifter gallerys while you turn the distributor shaft with a ratchet or a drill
