I finished up the truck yesterday and it fired right up. However, it had really bad lifter tap so I shut it down. The first thing that came to mind was that there might be an issue with the remote oil filter so I started unscrewing the oil filter to see if it had oil which it did. It was late by that time so I left it for today. Tonight I pulled the driverside valve cover which requires removing the upper intake so it took a little while to do. I wanted to see if it had any oil in it and it was dry. So I'm assuming that I made a rookie mistake and left the oil galley plug off in the front of the block. I know that I didn't even check it when I assembled the engine so it makes sense that it's not there. I'll be pulling the front of the engine apart over the next few days and hopefully that's what it is.
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