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| | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | I'm not quite sure what to make of THIS It looks like an oiler that's been pinched off and I'm not quite sure why. This is a recently rebuilt engine that I'm partially disassembling so I can have my mechanic look at it before the warranty expires. Someone told me this was done because too much oil was getting to the rockers, taking oil from other areas... sounds odd to me. | | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 67 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2004 Posts: 67 | The pinching off of that tube was done to force more oil through and toward each end of the rocker arm shafts where the oil is needed. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Well sorry for the delay Woody, it take close to an hour to take a picture, edit and upload it to Webshots with my dial-up connection. Your probably aware of this but it might help one of the new guys. The clip on top of the oiler is a deflector, under the clip is a metering hole drilled in the top of the tube. The access oil is dumped back into the block through the drain hole in the head. http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2422488820098611668kKpgfp Your oiler probably got broken off and they squeezed it shut to try and meter the flow. If it were me, I would install a new oiler. Denny Graham Sandwich, IL
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | The normal hole in the end of the oiler is to allow excess oil to escape when the rocker shafts are full. It looks to me like someone's attempt to increase the oil pressure to the rockers by restricting the overflow. Will it hurt anything? Probably not. The rocker oiling system isn't tight enough to hold high pressure anyway.
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Is anyone sure that the pinch in the oiler was never done in the factory?
Tim | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Is anyone sure that the pinch in the oiler was never done in the factory?
Tim Only by association Tim. My original and the extra replacement I bought off of eBay just to have as a spare aren't crimped.
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Tiny, I have also bought NOS oilers and they are also not pinched. This spring, a friend of mine will be installing a 261 that has never been installed in a vehicle. We'll be taking off the valve cover and I'll check the oiler. Who knows, they might have pinched the rocker-arm oiler at the factory (maybe when testing the engine, after warm-up, to bring the oil pressure up to "factory specs".   Tim | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Like you say, who knows. They wouldn't gain much though because the fitting is held in place between the rocker shafts with just spring pressure. It wouldn't take much in the way of oil pressure to leak past the connection. :hammering:
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