K, well that blows that theory then.

 

I'm going to try to hold it with something

 

Be very careful then. If whatever you are trying to hold it with gets wedged between the flexplate and TC, then it will start rotating and could cause a fair amount of damage or seriously injure you.

 

i think im gonna loosen the trans and slide it back a bit seems a little safer

 

+1

Push it as far back as you can.

 

I an not a LT1 expert but why is there no oil shooting out of the rockers? With no oil deflecting clips installed you should have a heck of a mess. There should be oil hitting the inner fenders.

 

I've seen small block do it both ways. Shoot oil clear of the fenders and just a steady stream running over the lifters.

 

it was more running over the rockers a little came out of the head onto the manifolds but not too bad... anyways i drained the oil and ran a magnet through it absolutely no metal in the oil

 

Are you sure you have good oil pressure? Try dipping a pc a paper towel into the oil and look at it with a magnifying glass. With an old school SBC that amount of oil coming out of the lifters would be a problem. The oil should be splashing around a lot. That oil is the only cooling the valves have.

 

Its not exploding out of the rockers but its deff flowing good oil pressure is where it always is about 1/4 at idle and jumps to about 1/2 with throttle

i used a piece of paper as my paper towels have wicked texture but still the oil looks good a few specks of metal but no chunks (kinda made me think someone put glitter in the oil)