[Walt Dupont--Me.]

You can just install a block off plate and and it will be fine, BUT, I like to plug the pushrod hole on the 8BA engine because the pump bushing has a very small piss hole half way down into the main oil line, without the rod in a mist of oil will blow up into the valve spring area and the valve guides get more oil than nessarsary and may suck oil up the guides. While you have the intake off just take a 7/16 block plug and tape it into the push rod hole. You don't have to drive it way down, just snug it up so it won't blow out. Walt