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| | | | Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 9 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 9 | Hello, I need to replace the rocker arm oil line on my 216. I've read the 5 step process to follow in one of the online shop manuals but have a couple questions. I assume this can be done with motor and pan in place and after I drain the coolant below the lower oil line block connection on the left side? Any other tips/tricks to be aware of?
Thanks in advance. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,838 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,838 | Thread a piece of stiff wire like an acetylene welding rod through the old line to act as a guide to get the new one through the water jacket. Be sure to leave plenty of extra length at both ends to allow for gradual bends before soldering the line to the "through the block" fittings, and DO NOT use steel brake line- - - - -only 3/16" OD copper tubing. Steel line will rust out from exposure to the coolant. Good luck!
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52 | I bought the rocker arm oil line kit from Jim Carter. It is a fairly simple installation in theory but a bit difficult in practice, didn't have to do any soldering, used teflon tape to seal the threaded fittings that go into the block, then the hardest part was getting the bends in the copper tubing just right so that I could get the tubing up through the little hole in the head to reach the fitting from the rocker arm and still be able to fit the push rod cover back on with no rubbing on the tubing. The other end of the line was also kind of hard to get bends correct so that I could line up the fitting to oil line block. It felt like an accomplishment when I finished and didn't have any kinks in the line. No oil or coolant leaks so far. I have a 1937 216 engine. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,838 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,838 | Using threaded fittings under the pushrod cover usually causes an interference problem between the line and the sheet metal. It's a lot simpler to install a brass 1/8" pipe thread plug into the block with a 3/16" hole drilled into it, and solder the line to the plug. It's a lot less likely to leak coolant into the oil that way, as well.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 9 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 9 | Great advice! Thanks all.
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