[donnj]

Was out in the garage today and was getting things ready to fire up the motor soon. Engine is back from the machine shop, in the car now and blower was bolted on this morning. So it was time to prime the motor and get the oil all thru the passages and up to the top of the motor, so I reached for my homemade oil priming tool. Im sure we all have seen the ones from the store and no bashing on them at all but with that tool you will only get oil to one side of the motor(drivers side) because the groove near the bottom of the casting on the distributor is the actual rear of one of the passages.

I took a old distributor from a junkyard run long time ago, and converted it to a great homemade tool. Grinding the teeth off the gear, removing the advance and other stuff not needed I was on my way, Up top I found a useless Chinese socket that made a very tight fit on the shaft and just hammered it on...it will take more torque than needed here. I dropped it into the block, grabbed a drill with a extention and I was able to prime away. Also remember guys you CANNOT oil all of the rockers on an SBC without rotating the engine some. Oil flow is timed by movement of the parts over the orifices. Usually a single small change of position is enough to pick up the ones that are dry after first pumping

Any other homemade tools out there?