Oil Galleries

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currently I have no oil getting into my head from except at the nvct valve and my lifters are dry. I removed the head and noticed that you can push a wire straight throught the vct oil gallery but the other two galleries I cannot. Is this normal or is this indicting a blockage.

[Cjmartz2k]

Did you use the right head gasket?

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yep same gasket, the car was sitting for awhile as i was getting an ecu and injector problem fixed. i drained the oil went from castrol gtx 20w50 to castrol synthetic blend 20w50 and got no oil. today i pushed the oil restrictor further into the block and rolled the motor over a coule times and now some oil is coming up throught the galleries but how do i ensure what had it blocked doesnt do it again. i did a motor flush already!

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i am jacking my own tread but hows the holset working out for ya

[Cjmartz2k]

O boy, I don't know then. I think the whole oil getting stuck in the head thing is a bunch of crap so I never really messed with oil restrictors. That's kinda scary that it happened after an oil change though.

I loved the holset (car is taken apart now) and plan on re-installing it when I build another car. Probably go with a bigger holset after I get board with that one. A lot of my friends on Okinawa started running them too after seeing and racing/riding in mine. Several people went directly from GT series garrett to Holset and say they won't go back.