Oil Primer tool. Make your own, the easy way from your own scrap.

[Nasty-LSX]

I needed a oil primer for the Camaro. You can make one from a Distributor and it 's pretty
easy. If you dont have a bench grinder, you can use a 4inch grinder with a flap wheel.
dont matter if it's a HEI or points. Check it out!!

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[Bextreme04]

Or just rent the one from Autozone for free. If you decide to not return it... it's a whopping $9

 

[scrap--metal]

I made one with a bad esc distributor. The pickup coil died in it.

Way better than making a trip to autozone, and its essentially free.

 

[Radiohead]

I used to collect distributor drive shafts out for things I was rebuilding over the years and out in a drawer should be the whole bunch. Great thread for the uninitiated.

 

[Bextreme04]

I made one with a bad esc distributor. The pickup coil died in it.

Way better than making a trip to autozone, and its essentially free.

Depends. It's a 5 minute detour on my way home from work for me and I don't have enough bad distributors laying around to spend 30 minutes cutting one apart. At this point, I have so many different projects and so little spare space for extra parts that it is way easier and cheaper for me to rent the tool for free on the one day every few years that I might need to prime a new engine.

 

[Nasty-LSX]

I made one with a bad esc distributor. The pickup coil died in it.

Way better than making a trip to autozone, and its essentially free.

Thats the whole idea.

 

[Ricko1966]

Another almost free oil primer is cut the wand off a garden sprayer ,clamp a piece of fuel hose on. Screw a barbed fitting into the oil pressure switch port slip your hose on the barbed fitting. Put a quart of fresh oil in the sprayer and pump it up, put the rest of your oil in the engine. Remove the barbed fitting put in the oil pressure switch,start your engine,it will have oil pressure.

 

[Bextreme04]

Another almost free oil primer is cut the wand off a garden sprayer ,clamp a piece of fuel hose on. Screw a barbed fitting into the oil pressure switch port slip your hose on the barbed fitting. Put a quart of fresh oil in the sprayer and pump it up, put the rest of your oil in the engine. Remove the barbed fitting put in the oil pressure switch,start your engine,it will have oil pressure.

This is also the ONLY way to prime an LS motor besides just killing the fuel pump feed and cranking until you get oil pressure.

 

[sidschev]

long time ago i used ta have of of them home made rigs. cant remember where it got off to.......

 

[squaredeal91]

I have a several different made/modified tools like this. my Distributor tool was made from an iron small block Distributor. My clutch spline tool is a 3 speed input shaft. My pitman arm puller is made from square body truck cross member. I value these more than allot of my bought tools.

 

[Ricko1966]

I have a several different made/modified tools like this. my Distributor tool was made from an iron small block Distributor. My clutch spline tool is a 3 speed input shaft. My pitman arm puller is made from square body truck cross member. I value these more than allot of my bought tools.

We have a thread for homemade and modified tools,maybe someone with better search skills can put up a hot link to it, I'd love to see everyones homemade tools.

 

[Radiohead]

Challenge accepted. I will go look this afternoon and see what I have left.

 

[Ricko1966]

Homemade​

 

[Ricko1966]

Homemade and modified tool thread

Who's Keith?

www.gmsquarebody.com

I figured out how to link it.

 

[PrairieDrifter]

I'm glad someone mentioned the cheap priming tools, or some hack ways. You have to have either a modded distributor or you have to buy a nicer priming tool.

YOU ARE NOT OILING PROPERLY! Not the entire engine anyways. There's a reason why the body of the distributors are shaped the way they are..