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PROBLEMS AGAIN!!!!
I had some more problems with the engine. This
time it was the oil pump. Now how can the oil pump be a headache? Well
it's like this....I was installing it and noticed when I had it bolted
down that the hole for the distributor wasn't inline with the oil pump
drive shaft. I wanted to double check this so out came the distributor.
Without the heads or intake manifold on, I slid the distributor in and
at the same time was spinning the cam gear to make the two gears mesh.
After a turn or two on the cam gear, there was a bind and I couldn't
turn the gear anymore. Once the distributor shaft engaged the oil pump
shaft, that was where the bind was. Now there was only two things that I
could think of that would make this happen. The first was the oil pump
shaft was misaligned with the oil pump housing. If the shaft coming out
was put in slightly off (wrong angle), this might be enough to cause the
problem. The other thing was that the block had the distributor hole in
the wrong spot in relation to the oil pump shaft.
I browed an oil pump and pump shaft from my buddy
to see if this was the problem because this would be by far the easier
fix. Hot damn that was it and all I would have to do now is buy another
pump. My oil pump shaft seemed to be fine because if I used his or mine,
it worked with his pump. I figured that the angle of the shaft was no
more than one degree off but by the time it was multiplied by the length
of the shaft (5" or so), this would be enough to throw it off.
Looks like I can just go and get another one and throw the other one
away. If anyone wants the old one, let me know and they can have it :~]
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