My take on the oiling system crossover tube for the small block

Marcohotrod said

is there a problem with getting full time rocker oiling with a groove in the 2 and 4 cam journal like Crane and others did? and my flat solid lifter 340 has been going since 1995 with no full time oiling (Hughes said he did testing and at speed the cam spinning fast gives like a steady flow) and I blocked oil to the drivers side with a plug in the front driver side passage. no crossover tube, enlarging passages at filter and from cam to mains per old Dick Landy

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I ran a grooved comp cam in my last motor to get full time oiling that way, and I lost the spread on the 2&4 main bearings after 40 runs.
It was pointed out to me by another member that the mistake I made was not using a restrictor at the deck to reduce the flow.
Charles Sanborn oiling guru(rest in peace) said on another board that trying to get full time oiling by increasing volume through the cam bearings was later found to fail main and rod bearings.
The new Chrysler approved method is to turn the cam bearings to completely cut flow to the rocker feed passage and use a jumper tube directly from the main galley.
Now if the pulsing on and off were to look like a steady stream of oil flow at higher rpm, the engineers at Chrysler would not be telling everyone to not restrict flow to the 2&4 cam bearings for many many years. In the stroker small block book they are still saying there is not enough oil getting to the rockers and they were the first to put in print to run a jumper tube.
Would you care to explain how you control the leakage at your cam bearing to the rest of us. I mentioned earlier in this thread that you made that claim many months ago, but never explained how this would be done.