HELP!
Fresh Australian in-line 6 cylinder head rebuild and went to fire up today for the first time. The issue we ran into was oil is not flowing to the head. I’m getting 40-45 psi pressure on the mechanical gauge, but we were unable to visualize any oil flowing. We turned the engine over for quite some time without the coil to dizzy wire hooked up to prime until we got good pressure. Then connected the wire and fired. Let it run for 5 seconds or so, no oil moving. Removed the front rocker pedestal bolt (circled below) and nothing. Also switched the keyed plug to one side to see if we could visualize and nothing still. Pressure when running was in the 40s.
Never had this issue with the previous head. Stock block, it was not touched. New rocker shaft, all pedestals and parts were put through the cleaner so nothing is plugged up. I put 4.5 quarts of straight 30W with zinc additive. Head gasket is on correctly, had two different sets of eyes on it.
Not sure where to go from here!! So frustrating!!
Fresh Australian in-line 6 cylinder head rebuild and went to fire up today for the first time. The issue we ran into was oil is not flowing to the head. I’m getting 40-45 psi pressure on the mechanical gauge, but we were unable to visualize any oil flowing. We turned the engine over for quite some time without the coil to dizzy wire hooked up to prime until we got good pressure. Then connected the wire and fired. Let it run for 5 seconds or so, no oil moving. Removed the front rocker pedestal bolt (circled below) and nothing. Also switched the keyed plug to one side to see if we could visualize and nothing still. Pressure when running was in the 40s.
Never had this issue with the previous head. Stock block, it was not touched. New rocker shaft, all pedestals and parts were put through the cleaner so nothing is plugged up. I put 4.5 quarts of straight 30W with zinc additive. Head gasket is on correctly, had two different sets of eyes on it.
Not sure where to go from here!! So frustrating!!