Priming motor question

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Brewzer67

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So I am moving along on putting my 526" together and started to prime the oiling yesterday. I ran the drill and primed until I was able to confirm oil to one head, then rotated the engine until the second head oiled as well. The problem is I never had any oil come from the pushrod ball ends. I am using MRL/BAM's oil-thru solid roller lifters (confirmed as oil-thru) and Trend oil-thru pushrods with ball-ball ends (to go with the cup adjusters on my rockers). I have confirmed there is tons of oil leaking/coming out of the lifter bores so I know the oil is there. How long does it take to get to the cup? I am guessing it gets fed at a different time in the engine rotation cycle because of where the oil band is in the lifter. I have tried to run the drill while constantly turning the engine over by hand but then I keep overflowing the oil on the headers. Any ideas?
 
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I would not worry about the lifters if you have "all that" now.
 
67Dart273 said:
I would not worry about the lifters if you have "all that" now.
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I am not worried about the lifters, I am worried about the pushrod end on the rocker side. Since there is no feed directly to the adjuster other than the pushrod oiling, I am worried about burning tips. If it was a cup end on the pushrod I wouldn't be as concerned because the rockers would be feeding the cup. The cam is .715 lift and spring pressure at full open is 585 pounds.
 
Only way I know is do what you did........and.......

Prefill the lifters by immersing them in a pan of light oil and work the plunger with a PR

Lube the rockers and PR balls before start up

Then when you start it, WATCH carefully to be sure everything starts to oil
 
I did the pre-soak already (for a year actually :) ) so I know they are filled. They are solid rollers so no plunger to work. The cups are filled with an oil soluble assembly grease so that is done already. I can take the wait and see approach but would rather know ahead of time. Custom 7/16" pushrods aren't cheap so I'd rather not smoke a set if I can avoid it.
 
Pushrods don't oil until the engine is running, so a little assembly grease in the cups and good to go.
 
Alrighty then. I guess it sounds like it will be "wait and see". Thanks trailbeast and 67Dart273.
 
Brewzer67 said:
I did the pre-soak already (for a year actually :) ) so I know they are filled. They are solid rollers so no plunger to work. The cups are filled with an oil soluble assembly grease so that is done already. I can take the wait and see approach but would rather know ahead of time. Custom 7/16" pushrods aren't cheap so I'd rather not smoke a set if I can avoid it.
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the grease is not allowing the oil to come through. get rid of it!!!! you will burn pushrods for sure with it in there!! I had a guy burned up 3 sets pushrods with grease in cups. told him to use oil, no problem after that. the grease cannot get out, stays and cooks!!
 
I will defer to Mike at B3 Racing on that one as he assembled the rocker setup. What say you Mike, do I need to remove the assembly lube you used?
 
Brewzer67 said:
I will defer to Mike at B3 Racing on that one as he assembled the rocker setup. What say you Mike, do I need to remove the assembly lube you used?
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If I was doing another stroker, I`d cut a small groove about .020 to .030 in the no. 4 cam journal. Will have a small amount of full time oiling to the valve train. Would be way better than drilling the oil passages in the gallery and then having to regulate it down, like I did. .
 
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