Jim Weise's request for some of the earlier rockers made me think about oiling again. Is the answer always oil through the pushrods with either early shaft rockers and later ones? Like a 72 455 block with 430 heads & shaft rockers? Thanks
If you do that you need the hybrid pushrods and plug the hole in the driver's deck. I have that same combo in one engine.
I'm in the process of building a 462 with 67 Rockers, oiled via pushrod. I did plug the deck oiling, but only to avoid oil leaks as I'm using 71 heads shaved to 70 cc.
Something a little different. I'm doing some work on a 400 that I'm converting to '70 and up rockers/lifters/pushrods. I may want to convert back to a complete '69 system and because I don't want to remove the heads to unplug the block passage I came up with a way to plug the oil passage at the opening on the rocker pedestal. Hopefully the oil won't push through at the block and seep out since I'm using steel head gaskets.
