Mis-aligned oil pump drive shaft.
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Mis-aligned oil pump drive shaft.
During the process of trying to turn the distributor shaft 1 tooth to obtain a more favorable placement of the distributor position, the oil pump drive shaft must have come up with the dist. enough to come out of the pump drive. It must have cocked to the side and wedged itself on top of the pump, and there it seems determined to stay. Does anyone have a quick solution other than pulling the pan?
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Originally Posted by Fierce Sparrow
During the process of trying to turn the distributor shaft 1 tooth to obtain a more favorable placement of the distributor position, the oil pump drive shaft must have come up with the dist. enough to come out of the pump drive. It must have cocked to the side and wedged itself on top of the pump, and there it seems determined to stay. Does anyone have a quick solution other than pulling the pan?
Can you still see it down in the block in its proper place?
If I get one that's a little troublesome like that, I put a glob of grease on the tip of a long flat bladed screwdriver and put it between the oil pump shaft and the side of the passage in the block to hold the shaft away from the side of the hole.
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Hold on to your pan
Had a simalar problem with my 460, cost me a redo of a fresh rebuild the first time. To resolve the issue I took a piece of soft copper tubing and preformed it around a oil pump priming shaft to get the general shape with a hammer on a piece of steel table. Now that I had the shape roughed I slid it in the hole from above and tapped it on to the end of the dislodged shaft and pulled it out ot the engine. Once out I aligned it into the proper location then slide a rod down the top of the copper tube and tapped the pump driveshaft back out of the copper tube while it was in location. Worked great and was much easier than pulling a pan.
Hope I helped.
MT
Hope I helped.
MT
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