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AFTER BROKEN FEET AND ROUGH LIFE(Me not Midget) my husband put down his 36 Ford project and attacked the Mosquito {78 Midget} we took off head my gasket was thrashed replaced gasket,replaced old head with new old head {mine is the 1500} but there is no oil coming to the top of the engine. Head matched, gasket is on right - no oil ????? he is running out of patience with me and car!!!ARE WE STUPID no I think not....crazy definately!! I'm printing all advice If this topic looks familiar I posted on Spriget ,also any advice is saving my husbands life!
 
Love you Bill Terry already tried that??? or so he claims....not much on asking advice-hummm thats why my children (LBC's ) struggle!!
 
Randi said:
AFTER BROKEN FEET AND ROUGH LIFE(Me not Midget) my husband put down his 36 Ford project and attacked the Mosquito {78 Midget} we took off head my gasket was thrashed replaced gasket,replaced old head with new old head {mine is the 1500} but there is no oil coming to the top of the engine. Head matched, gasket is on right - no oil ????? he is running out of patience with me and car!!!ARE WE STUPID no I think not....crazy definately!! I'm printing all advice If this topic looks familiar I posted on Spriget ,also any advice is saving my husbands life!
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Randi, 1. are you really sure that you put the head gasket on correctly? they fit either way(front / back )! some of them even have the oil hole both in the front and back so that they can be used either side up, but then some of them don't.
2. The amount of oil going up to the head is minimal so if you put on a dry head and are waiting for it to become oily it will take a while.
3. work it out step by step: take off the rocker arm, pull out the spark plugs and give the engine a spin. there should be oil coming out of head near stud for the rear rocker base. If not, you probably have the gasket on backwards. If there is oil make sure that the rocker arm is not plugged up. I stripped down an old rocker arm set a few weeks ago and based on the way it looked, I doubt that oil would have flowed through the crud which had built up in it.
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Thank you -printing off and will attempt to convince my LBC hater to re think this also.....he's inches from setting the fire
 
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