Rick: I got stuck at school so I didn't get a chance to get back to you, as a matter of fact I'm still here. Anyway I read your note and thought wait a minute, isn't there a little gizmo on the shaft that keeps it from being pulled up, or could it have been taken off? Besides that, I was doing some more of that blank-blank
oil pressure testing and decided to check it at the fitting on the front left side of the block next to the fuel pump, and low and behold it's 65-70 psi, which is normal for a Cobra Jet pump, yet only 40-maybe just below 50 psi at the fitting on the top rear of the block.
I'm guessing my problem must be that the front cam bearing has shifted somehow enough to expose the
oil hole dropping pressure to the upper end. Never made it to Sears Point on Sunday, by the time I hit Rio Vista anything over 3,000 rpm and the rocker clatter was louder than the pipes, so I turned around and limped home. I can't think of anything else it could be since isolating the upper from the lower!!! I don't have anything to do tomorrow anyway (single you know) so I might spend it down at school weeping on my pumpkin pie. I will talk to you soon. Have a great and safe Thanksgiving, or call, I'll have the phone on.
John