shaggy - I hear you. I just want it to live a long happy life and not have to *&$# with it. I don't have time for that these days or the drive to do it any more. I just want to enjoy my car at this point in life, not wrench on it all the time. I guess that's just the difference between my 20's and now my 30's.
(i.e. I'm getting to be an old *$&#)
The problem you experience with your mains would be typical of the wide rod journal on the 351W. There are ways to prevent that though. For example, some people use an ultra high pressure oil pump or some people use a crank with a cleveland crank journal dimension (not as wide). Or, well, like you said you can just keep the RPM's down!
Ultraflo - Thanks for posting your pictures. That's exactly what I understood I would do, but now I see it before hand. I agree you need a bigger hole there (no jokes here anyone!!
), I am sure that will make it a bit easier getting the allen and extension in there.
Here's a question for you though... What pressure plate configuration are you running? What is your base pressure adjustment range, and what have you adjusted it to (normally speaking)? I actually have two pressure plates. One does not have the counter weight provisions, and has a base pressure range of like ~400 lbs to ~750 lbs. The other is the one I described earlier, which is big dog of the three Ram has that goes from ~850 lbs to ~1250 lbs and also has the counterweight set-up on the fingers.