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how do the rocker arms get oil on a AB engine ?
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Oh! that is an easy one. You can pull the valve cover off, and there should be a thick felt pad on top of the rockers, pour a goodly amount of motor oil and soak up the felt with oil. if you don't have a thick felt pad, get one. Then after you drive a couple of hundred miles you can use a squirt can full of motor oil and squirt it into the holes drilled in the top of the valve cover, that is what they are for! I reckon that you find it strange that there isn't an oil line coming up from the oil pump to the rockers? strange but true.
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Don't forget the end of the rocker arm that mates with the pushrods. That end should have a felt ring around each rocker arm where it operates the pushrods. Those rings should be oiled each time you oil the felt pad. 
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thank you very much the car i have did not have the felt so do you know where i can get it
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The felt pad and the felt rings are purchased separately and you will need to tell Gary that you want both if that is your choice.
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Those items/sets are also sold on eBay quite frequently.
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