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Well I heard you have to have a special attachement to fit the oil pump shaft. I know the shaft is pretty far down in the block, I dont think I could fit the drill in there enough. I think ill try the starter method.
btw, I am running a Melling HV oil pump with a melling high strength drive shaft, I have heard that the ARP's are the best, will mine work all right? I dont want it too snap on me.
Thanks again
btw, I am running a Melling HV oil pump with a melling high strength drive shaft, I have heard that the ARP's are the best, will mine work all right? I dont want it too snap on me.
Thanks again
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I used an old stock pump-shaft, mig welded the socket to the shaft. Then ground it smooth. The socket seemed to be a litle tight without grinding it down. This setup has little to no chance of dropping the socket in the pan....
Oh, and I think it spins counter-clockwise (looking from the top) with the drill.
Oh, and I think it spins counter-clockwise (looking from the top) with the drill.
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Gtex is right. It spins counter-clockwise. That would be reverse on your drill. When I did mine I used a thin wall socket, 1/4" drive, with the extension in the drill. Leave the valve covers off to look for oil oozing out of the rockers.
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Another delay
Okay, got some really crappy news, I just pulled the dizzy to prime the oil pump and I can see that a lifter galley plug (the one on top, closest to the dizzy) has come out, this explains my 10psi@2000rpm oil pressure reading. So I will be taking the intake off tommorw too see what other ones have come out. This time around I am going to tap the holes and put the screw in type. At first I was furious and I punched the wall, but I am so used to taking things back apart becasue I scewed up at something that it is no big deal. I figure that I can get the old plug out by draining the oil and trying to get it with a magnet. So its a big set back but thats the price of being a 16 year old self-taught FE engine builder. I wonder when the plugs at the rear of the block will be coming out? 
One more thing, the plugs that you hammer in, is the open part supposed to be pointing out, or the other way? Gtex and rusty, what kind of oil plugs did you use?
One more thing, the plugs that you hammer in, is the open part supposed to be pointing out, or the other way? Gtex and rusty, what kind of oil plugs did you use?
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Originally Posted by FERacing66
Okay, got some really crappy news, I just pulled the dizzy to prime the oil pump and I can see that a lifter galley plug (the one on top, closest to the dizzy) has come out, this explains my 10psi@2000rpm oil pressure reading. So I will be taking the intake off tommorw too see what other ones have come out. This time around I am going to tap the holes and put the screw in type. At first I was furious and I punched the wall, but I am so used to taking things back apart becasue I scewed up at something that it is no big deal. I figure that I can get the old plug out by draining the oil and trying to get it with a magnet. So its a big set back but thats the price of being a 16 year old self-taught FE engine builder. I wonder when the plugs at the rear of the block will be coming out?
One more thing, the plugs that you hammer in, is the open part supposed to be pointing out, or the other way? Gtex and rusty, what kind of oil plugs did you use?
One more thing, the plugs that you hammer in, is the open part supposed to be pointing out, or the other way? Gtex and rusty, what kind of oil plugs did you use?
I can't be much help there. Flatlander put those in the first time, and the local machine shop the second time (when I had #1 sleeved for that pushrod cup incident). I had the wrong pushrod cup size. So, I've been where you're at...hang in there. I do believe mine are the screw in type.
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Take your time. The old saying haste makes waste is appropriate. You don't want to waste what you have spent so much time working on. Anything worth doing is worth doing right 
This is getting to corny, sorry!
This is getting to corny, sorry!
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You are doing fine - none of my kids would have been able to do what you have without massive help.
Experance is the best teacher, but it can be a bitch. All of us learned the same way, by making the same mistakes - or even worse ones.
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Well I cant be much help either. I had my block completely reconditioned when I had it bored .030" over at the machine shop. New freeze plugs, new lifter gallery plugs, new cam end plug, new cam bearings, so on and so forth.
I do know they go concave side in though.
I do know they go concave side in though.
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