Hello all,
I have been ill so my Ford fun sat in the parking lot for about a year before I could deal with it again. I took it back to the guys who built the engine. They found that it had pushed a lifter out of the lifter bore, hence no oil PSI at idle. This was so odd because there was no noise. It was down on power, but I did not drive it since the oil PSI issue was found. After a new cam and lifters it pulled a rocker stud that afternoon. Back to the engine builder. Another great Ford idea is not to thread the rocker studs but to pin them in place. This time it also pushed a lifter out of the bore. They replaced all the rocker studs and so far we are good to go! Just told my son, NO MORE FORD BIG BLOCKS! Lesson learned. If you ever do a Ford big block, and use the stock heads, make the replacement of the rocker studs a must!