'35 Standard 8 Oiling issue

Posted by Bill Heptig On 2011/6/30 20:59:53

Greetings Forum users, I'm looking for some engine basics, I don't usually do my own work, so I'm need some details the experts here would know I'm sure

I just had a complete overhaul done on a standard 8, The all the moving parts redone as the car had a bad crank, so new crank, Main bearings, rods with inserts, cam reprofiled, crank ground, the list goes on.

Very expensive and time consuming, I picked it up from the mechanic and after about 5 miles driving it blew the gasket on the roller rocker cover, throwing oil around, I stopped and no damage lost about 2 quarts from the 8, had it towed, would have taken it back to the mechnaic but he's going to hospital and unavailable. The engine was "short blocked" by the machine shop, and engine accesories added by the mechanic. The machine shop made these gaskets.

I have some questions would appreciate some input from the experts on the forum.

- I only drove a few minutes so I couldn't observer things as closely as I'd have liked but the oil pressure seemed high 80 lbs when accelerating, my recollection is it never went much past 60lbs previously, could the oil pressure regulator be mis-adjusted or defective?

- What would the minium pressure be at idle and max be when accelarting the vehicle? How does one properly check/adjust this, I was told that the pressure has to be acceptable with the car at idle so thats a concern, don't know what it would normally be, seems too high.

It looks pretty straight forward to pull the valve covers and then pull the rocker assemblies, I talked to the mechanic he said a "valve lifter" may be needed to remove pressure from valves pushing down on the roller rockers.
Is this a tool that would be commonly available, not sure if this is what the proper name would be??

Would appreciate any suggestions from 320 straight experts out there.

Regards