Any one interested in the oiling mods I did?
OK, here's a pic of the tube installed in the right oil galley. My plan was to use a Bridgeport to ream the galley but there just wasn't enough room to do it so I had to use a 1/2" hand drill. Takes a long time. After the galley is reamed you just tap the tubes in and hammer the peening tool through. That's not enough to get the lifters to move freely though, you have to hone the crap out of it and drive the peening tool through several times because the tube will rotate on the first pass of the peening tool. Here's a tip too, install old lifters in the lifter bores before you drill the passages to the main saddles so the tubes don't rotate when the drill bit hits them.
This is where the soft plug is located that seperates the oil filter inlet from the outlet. I was on the fence about removing it but went ahead and did it and I am glad I did. I'll explain in a bit.
With the plug removed I was able to run the 1/2" drill bit all the way through to the right oil galley and I'm glad I did as while the passage was 1/2" or more most of the way it necked down to about 3/8" just before it got to the right galley. Remove the plug and check!
I was then able to get into the oil galley and round that corner off where it intersects.
You also have to drill this hole out and retap it for a larger pipe plug.
This corner right here is the only intersection that I can't reach to round off, it will just have to stay that way.
Up next will be pics of the oil pickup modifications. Since this is a circle track pan and they don't make the correct pickup for it anymore I have to modify what I have but I'm not quite done with that yet.
OK, here's a pic of the tube installed in the right oil galley. My plan was to use a Bridgeport to ream the galley but there just wasn't enough room to do it so I had to use a 1/2" hand drill. Takes a long time. After the galley is reamed you just tap the tubes in and hammer the peening tool through. That's not enough to get the lifters to move freely though, you have to hone the crap out of it and drive the peening tool through several times because the tube will rotate on the first pass of the peening tool. Here's a tip too, install old lifters in the lifter bores before you drill the passages to the main saddles so the tubes don't rotate when the drill bit hits them.
This is where the soft plug is located that seperates the oil filter inlet from the outlet. I was on the fence about removing it but went ahead and did it and I am glad I did. I'll explain in a bit.
With the plug removed I was able to run the 1/2" drill bit all the way through to the right oil galley and I'm glad I did as while the passage was 1/2" or more most of the way it necked down to about 3/8" just before it got to the right galley. Remove the plug and check!
I was then able to get into the oil galley and round that corner off where it intersects.
You also have to drill this hole out and retap it for a larger pipe plug.
This corner right here is the only intersection that I can't reach to round off, it will just have to stay that way.
Up next will be pics of the oil pickup modifications. Since this is a circle track pan and they don't make the correct pickup for it anymore I have to modify what I have but I'm not quite done with that yet.
