Olds engine gurus...

got a 62 394 in my 60 Olds. had to use the original 60 371 heads and exhaust manifolds. the heads bolt up fine and all the water jackets and what not line up perfectly. the visible difference is that the rockers and push rods on the 62 motor have oil holes and the ones from the 60 motor do not. are there any differences i'm not noticing that would keep me from just running the 62 394 valve train with the 60 371 heads?

thanks

 

anybody???

 

i have a bunch of 394 parts out in the garage,i'll go have a look.

 

you the man... i had to put the heads from the original 371 in this car because when i replaced the motor with the 394 from the 62 the 394 exhaust manifolds would not clear the suspension and you could not use the manifolds from one motor to the other. they just bolted up completely differently. a little research told me the heads would swap though and that way i could use the original exhaust manifolds and all would be right with the world.

 

i used smith brothers adjustable pushrods on the 62 394 i built, and they are solid, no oil hole just like the stock 394

http://www.pushrods.net/

 

i know the earlier Oldsmobiles oiled the rockers through the rocker shaft pedestals,not sure about the later stuff.

 

I don't know **** about the early Olds engines, but with that disclaimer, this was the first thing that came to my mind...that perhaps the two engines oil the valvetrain differently. If that's the case, I would think that you are OK; since you are using the '62 block & lifters, and the '62 pushrods & rockers, everything should be getting oil.

I'd look on the heads to verify that there are oil p***ages on the '60 heads & block (and not on the '62 stuff) to confirm this...and then you should verify that the '60 head oil p***ages are blocked by the head gasket and/or the '62 block. If this isn't the reason that the rockers/pushrods are different, and the oil p***ages are still in the '62 stuff, then it may be a case of a hydraulic cam vs. a solid, and you may need to block something off in the '60 heads....use a '62-specific head gasket, or an application-specific (cam) gasket, or a plug...something.

All this is just speculation on my part, just going by other engines that change vavletrain oiling, but maybe it gives you a reference point.