[Ed Snyder]

Originally Posted by bigblockv6

When priming my 478 I experienced the same situation of not getting oil in the rockers, the solution to that was just hand cranking the engine with a breaker bar in small increments and continuing the priming process and yes oil did come out of the rockers.

Aren't there holes in the rocker arm shafts that have to be lined up with holes in the mounts before oil will flow? That won't happen with just spinning the oil pump.