'68 318 to carbed Magnum 5.2: Check my checklist

Sirland67 busted his butt getting a set of 16 lifters to me. You are the best!

That said, I put them in and spun the priming tool with my 1200 RPM drill. Unlike the lifters that were shooting 2" streams of oil, these lifters are pretty much just dribbling when primed. However, they seemed to pump up, so I put all the pushrods in to "see what I could see."

After about 30 seconds of continuous priming, I get a slow dribble of oil coming through the pushrod onto the rocker, but very little. I shot some really terrible iPhone footage of this, which I've attached below:

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC-fBni3eB8"]Lifters - YouTube[/ame]

And at the rocker:

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqDYV1uRYSU"](FABO) Rocker oiling from pushrods - YouTube[/ame]

I have some good GoPro shots, but need to upload them, and I'm in the midst of trying to build three FreeNAS server boxes for all the stuff I have around here, so the better footage will have to wait.

These are not the results I was getting from the "good" 8 lifters that were in the engine, which pretty much pissed oil from the pushrod hole like there was no tomorrow.

That said, have I had this wrong all along? Is this the way it's supposed to look when primed at this speed?

One other issue: Of the 16 lifters, 14 pump up so that the rocker is firm against the pedestal. One allows for a bit of wiggle room. The other is just as bad as the lifters that weren't pumping up to begin with - you can press it down even when spinning the priming shaft.

Thoughts? Opinions? I'm all ears.

-Kurt