Kerry,
Found the engine tag in a box with the dizzy. It is perfect after a quick clean up with steel wool!!
All,
Had a small set back in the engine build. Put on the oil pump, pickup, and oil pan yesterday. Put on a new oil filter and screwed in my liquid filled oil pressure gauge that I use in all engine startups. Got out my trusty ½ inch drill motor and proceeded to spin up the pump. Bart the owner was there to witness my awesome (not!!) engine build skills. Spun right up 75 pounds of oil pressure and all looked good. Wanted to show Bart how I pre-lube all motors and then waited for the oil to come up into the rocker shafts and drip off the rocker arms onto the valves…… five minutes later, no joy. Dry as a bone. Rolled the engine over by hand and primed more…. No joy….
Yup, wait for it………………… Wait for it……………. Yup, Rob the “supposed” Ford guru had forgotten to let the engine builder know about side oiler 427’s and their cam bearings…. Yup, wrong cam bearings blocking the transfer passage to the heads.
Rob is a bozo and now will strip the engine back to a short block and take her back to the machine shop which is top notch. He then will strip the engine of the crank, rods and pistons. Yup the cam bearings are the first thin to install!
So a bunch of gaskets and some effort and I will be back on track. Not feeling very smart at the moment… At least it is still on the engine stand. I always pre-prime on the engine stand before I land a motor.
Below are some links to the proper cam bearings and a great tutorially form 2005 about 427 side oiler cam bearings.
Rob
https://www.ebay.com/p/Dura-Bond-F24-Engine-Camshaft-Bearing/115079035?iid=232982646123
http://www.ford-mel-engine.com/old_forum/www.network54.com/Forum/message/index-56063.html