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Old October 17th 05, 09:23 PM
Chas Hurst
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Default BB 366 - rockers clatter; oil pressure but no oil at rockers

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> Hi - I'm working on my farm's chevy 87 c-70 w/ 366 v8 (which came out
> of an early 1970's era truck). The motor runs and has good oil
> pressure (according to the gauge) but there is no oil coming out of the
> pushrod tubes and the valves are very noisy as a result.
>
> What would cause this to be? There is only a little trickle of oil
> coming out the pushrods for the number 1 piston (the front one on the
> drivers side), none at the rest. I'm noticing it now because I just
> had the head off the drivers side to fix a broken exhaust valve and
> once it was all put back together the noise was terrible; before taking
> the head off there was no noise but still hardly any oil coming out the
> tubes.
>
> I pulled the oil pan off and the pump looks fine - no plugged screen or
> damage. I also pulled off the bearing cap on a couple of the pistons
> and that looked ok - no visible problem. A local motor shop told me
> that if the cam or cam bearings were bad we might have oil at the back
> (closest to firewall) tubes but none torwards the front. SO - I'm at a
> loss.
>
> All and any help is greatly appreciated.
>



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