I have a 97 warrior and I keep losing compression out of my plug hole. I froze the intake rocker to the pin so I bought another used head off of ebay. About 3 miles later, the exact same thing happened. When I take the valve covers off, i can see oil spurting out of the exhaust side, but no oil to the intake side. Should there be? If so, would it be an oil galley or a weak pump? Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

 

oil comes up the head bolt that has that rubber thing on it under the head. My question is, did you use assembly lube? Mine ran for hours and hours with no oil flow, just assembly lube when my oil pump went out. you can take your oilpump apart and see if its up to specs though. They cost 75 bucks. I just put one in mine.

 

No, I didn't use assembly lube. Does oil ONLY come up the galley with the o-ring? Should I hit it with compressed air to ensure it's not clogged? Do you know if I should see oil pumping in the intake valve side?

 

Ive never checked to see if I could actually see the oil, going. BTW, is your cam burning up too? new rocker arms are about 36 bucks each and rocker shafts about 24 each. I froze my whole top end and put all new stuff in it. My problem was a fragged oil pump though. But no, im not sure that bolt is the only the only place oil comes up but if your not using assembly lube you really need to. That may be the whole problem there. Im fairly sure though that oil goes up through that bolt, through the cam and rockers, then drops back down the cam chain hole into the motor. But thats just an assumption. You need to check your oil pump though, if it goes out you can be majorly screwed.

 

Iam not sure about the cam. I took the first head to a machine shop and they couldn't get the rocker pin off, farmed it out, still no luck. They talked about having to cut the rocker arm off to get the pin out. So I haven't checked out the cams. I've never checked into the assembly lube, but I'll give it a try once I figure out why this problem is reaccuring. I just have doubts about the oil pump being bad when the oil was spurting out of the exhaust valve (with the cover off) onto the floor.

 

when mine froze the rockers were pretty hard to get out. We first soaked it in diesel for a day. Then slowly worked em till it moved a little bit and then used a slide hammer on it, then worked it some more. Eventually they came out but we were bent the bolts we were using to pull them out pretty bad. One nearly got bent in half.