Head lube ;-)

Great title already. Quick question for my head rebuild.

-What's the stuff I need for lube? Is it RTX? Where can I get a lot of that at? Never seen it at AutoZone.

-My cams came with a small tube of Crower Cam Lube. Is this the same stuff?

-What exactly do I lube? Looks like everything right?

My machinist gave me a little bottle of shit to use when I rebuilt my head. Well, that chinsy ass bottle broke before I even got home leaving green ooze all the hell over my head. I said fuck it and just coated shit up good with engine oil before I started it up, worked fine for me.

But you still have to lube up the cams, valves, and everything.

Oh yeah, I lubed the shit out of everything. Not so much on the head of the valves but I think I got a bit on the stem, made sure there was a bunch all where lifters and rockers were, all over the cam and where the are held to the head etc.

So I there's one kind for everything though right? What's the name of it?

Um, Mobil 1 10w-30? Thats what I used anyway.

Um, Mobil 1 10w-30? Thats what I used anyway.

Not the oil... I think we're not on the same page here. I'll try to find what I think I'm talking about. Anyone else?

ARP sells lube. I believe its called molly lube. You need a lube that will stay on the parts and not run off like oil will. I lubed all moving parts and all cam journals with the molly lube(very generiously). After it was all together and right before I put the valve cover on I filled it up with oil straight onto the head parts. Just be carefull not to get any oil down the spark plug holes.

I believe I got my lube from www.extremepsi.com

:lol: Yes Dave, we are on the same page. The bottle of special lube I got broke open so I threw the rest away and used regular engine oil for the assembly lube.

That's not good. You going to have problems down the road with that thor?

Why is that bad? Oh, and it doesnt matter, thats the engine that shit the bed less than 50 miles later.

Lube Everything!

I use motor oil. These are some 40 years old v8s. Every motor I put together is fully primed the instant it starts up. That being said, I don't use assembly lube, just oil.

The only place I use a special lube is on the ARP head studs. There is a ton of info on my site about that however, so I won't go into it here.

It certainly will not hurt to use assembly lube on everything, so if you are anal and things like this give you a haahd-on, go for it.

damn this thread topic name let me down jk

damn this thread topic name let me down jk

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Ya I'm going to lube it all up very generously. I'll be anal about that. Just want to make sure everything works fine. I don't want to have to go in to redo anything for awhile.

Quick side question. I've got the head bascially out together, just resting the pieces in there. The cams are just laying in their spots. Should they be able to spin freely, or will that not really happen till they get lubed up? They can turn, but they're really rough.

If the valve/springs and what not are still installed then it will be rough to turn the camshafts. The roughness is what is required to overcome the springs. If the springs/valves are not in then the camshafts should just spin freely as long as the journals have lube in them.

Ok, they're not lubed up yet so that's what I thought. Thanks.

Has anyone ever ordered from Howell Automotive? My order is "processing" for like 2 weeks now, WTF?