DeTomaso Mailing List: December 2000, Message #179

From:	FlyinRider@aol.com
Subject:	BOOM SAGA what I found out
Date:	Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:41:25 -0500


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Last night a friend suggested what many of you suggested today was that the 
oil pump might have seized.  So last night I installed the oil pump drive 
shaft and it was indeed frozen.  This morning I removed the oil pump and 
removed the oil pump cover. I could not see any F.O.D. but it was frozen 
solid as a rock.  I had to knock the impeller out with a punch and hammer and 
then I found the REAL reason of the failure.  There was stuck in the tip of 
the impeller a piece of wire .050 in diameter by .420 long. It left an 
imprint in the impeller.  Question though there was a screen on the oil pump 
pick up and the wire would not pass through the screen. I thought it might be 
part of the spring for the oil pump bypass however I cannot remove it by hand 
to look.  Maybe with a B.F.H. (big F*$#ing hammer) I will remove it later as 
I will obviously need a new pump.  

I think even if I had installed a bigger roll pin in the Distributor it would 
have sheared anyway or twisted the shaft.  I could not believe the force 
needed to disassemble the oil pump.  

  John #6377 (anybody know how to remove grease prints from the keyboard?)

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<HTML>Last night a friend suggested what many of you suggested today was that the 
oil pump might have seized.  So last night I installed the oil pump drive 
shaft and it was indeed frozen.  This morning I removed the oil pump and 
removed the oil pump cover. I could not see any F.O.D. but it was frozen 
solid as a rock.  I had to knock the impeller out with a punch and hammer and 
then I found the REAL reason of the failure.  There was stuck in the tip of 
the impeller a piece of wire .050 in diameter by .420 long. It left an 
imprint in the impeller.  Question though there was a screen on the oil pump 
pick up and the wire would not pass through the screen. I thought it might be 
part of the spring for the oil pump bypass however I cannot remove it by hand 
to look.  Maybe with a B.F.H. (big F*$#ing hammer) I will remove it later as 
I will obviously need a new pump.  
<BR>
<BR>I think even if I had installed a bigger roll pin in the Distributor it would 
have sheared anyway or twisted the shaft.  I could not believe the force 
needed to disassemble the oil pump.  
<BR>
<BR>  John #6377 (anybody know how to remove grease prints from the keyboard?)

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