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zakleeright

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  1. Hi all, Just rebuilt my first motor, left bottom end/block alone. My son and a friend both talked me out of doing the bottom end - and a leak down test showed only air coming out exhaust and intake (valves), nothing coming out of oil dipstick, etc - so rings/cylinders seemed fine. Head job, new cam, lifters, pushrods, oil pump, timing chain set, FMS/RMS, exhaust man., water pump, thermostat, freeze plugs, gaskets, etc. I filled it w/fresh oil yesterday, excited for the milestone. Found a 11" piece of 3/8" threaded rod, ground it down to replicate the bottom of the distributor, chucked it to a drill and spun the oil pump - valve cover off. Soon, oil squirted vigorously out of most of the push rod holes - except #5 exhaust. #2 and 4 also weren't nearly as "gushy" as the others, but 5 was bone dry - nothing. I spun the motor several times with a socket on the crank/balancer bolt, then spun the shit out of the oil pump for another 20 seconds or so - nothing out #5 push rod. I'm very worried. What could have I done wrong? I just saw someone recommend that you remove the spark plugs while doing this? I'm hoping there's something I can do to get oil flowing out all push rods equally - very hopefully without tearing apart this motor. My initial thoughts: Do a leak-down test, just to get pressure into the system somehow? drain the oil, re-fill with a very lightweight, viscous oil to see if that can worm its way through buy one of those $170 pressure tank systems to more forcefully push oil thru Pray that you gurus out there tell me I'm over-reacting and somehow everything is fine Tear apart the motor and start over (childlike sobbing) Many thanks for your ideas/expertise!
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