Im rebuilding my 1970 360. I tore the motor down and found the bearings on the #2 connecting rod were pretty bad. All the rest of the bearings showed normal wear. What would cause a conecting rod bearing to lose part of its coating. Another thing I found was the coating on the #3 cam bearing started to flake off. Possible the motor was ran out of
oil? So I got the motor torn down to bare block and did some oiling impromevents. I opened up the holes on #'s 1,2, and 4 main bearing oiling holes according to where the bearing hole actually was and I opened up #'s 3 and 5 slightly. I read thats the main oiling problem with FE's. Another oiling improment I did was I opened up the opening of the
oil pump hole in the block. I bought Clevite 77 rod and main bearings and cam bearings and I picked up a Melling M57
oil pump along with a new Melling oil pump shaft. What kind of pressure does the Melling M57 pump put out? Will the pressure be affected by the bigger oiling holes? Im sure the volume will be increased slightly. Rob.