> At 12:28 AM 6/21/02 -0400, Bob Stahlbush wrote:
> >.... complete rebuild of engine .... 66 B .... seemed awfully noisy on th
> >etop end. .... NO OIL on the shaft. .... When I blow air into the hole I
> >get nothing. I suspect a blockage somewhere in the block. A check of the
> >oil scvhematic shows that the rocker is fed through the cam
> >bearing.......could this be so???
>
> Yes, it's true.
>
> Oil flows from the oil filter into the main oil gallery, and from there to
> the crankshaft main bearings, and from there to the cam bearings. Oil
from
> the rear cam bearing flows up through a vertical drill hole in the block,
> through the head gasket into the head. Still going upwards it passes
> through a drilling in the rear rocker shaft pedestal to fill the hollow
> rocker shaft and feed oil to the rocker arms.
>
Any chance you replaced the rocker shaft assy (and/or head) with a later
model? The 66 has an inline oil feed thru the rocker pillar, while the later
(75-80) used an offset feed hole. If I understand things correctly, a
mismatch would cause the problem you're experiencing.
Jeff
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