LA Oiling Question

SpeedThrills said

In KrazyKuda's article about assembling the front of an LA, he mentions a bolt that should have a hole in it.
There are 3 bolts that hold the cam thrust plate in place. None of mine have the hole. Was it assembled incorrectly? It has the drip plate, or whatever it's called. It looks kinda like a timing pointer.
How to Assemble the Front of a Small Block

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Yes, if you have the drip plate, you should have the top passenger side bolt with a hole in it... Otherwise you will have only two bolts holding the camshaft thrust plate in...

I have seen another variation where they did not have the drip tab on the bottom two holes and just left the top passenger side bolt hole open... This way the oil can drip down and the oil slinger will throw oil onto the timing chain...

I like to use the drip tab as I feel it oils the timing chain better...

I did do a build recently where I didn't have the bolt with the hole in it and drilled the camshaft thrust plate hole for the drip tab tang one step larger and then modified the drip tab 'tang' to fit in that hole with the bolt...

If you have the ability to fabricate this, it will also work...

You want to open the bottom left hole on the camshaft thrust plate open enough to where you can modify the tab on the drip tab to fit along with the bolt...