oil pump drive shaft fell into oil pan now what?
#1
oil pump drive shaft fell into oil pan now what?
i was trying to put a new distributor into the car and it was really hard going in, so i pull it back out and i hear a clink type of noise, i lookin and the oil pump drive shaft lifted up and fell into the oil pan! How do i fix this? do i have to pull the motor? or can i just lift the motor up a few inches and pull the pan and fix this? thanks
#3
RE: oil pump drive shaft fell into oil pan now what?
you'll have to jack the motor using a cherry picker since the jack cant go on the oil pan, and then drain the oil, pull the pan, fish out the shaft, and reassamble.... thats too bad man!
#6
RE: oil pump drive shaft fell into oil pan now what?
that really sucks....but while its off you might want to go ahead and get a melling high volume oil pump on it and put a reuseable one piece gasket on the car.....you can get the melling oil pump at autozone for like $30 and it even comes with a new oil pump driveshaft with a star washer so this wont happen again :-) Kinda hard to go wrong for $30 since you have to pull **** apart anyway.
#7
RE: oil pump drive shaft fell into oil pan now what?
i was able to get mine out by draining the front sump's oil and using a magnetic antenna in the hole from the obolts goes to drain, its in the front sump, magnet on its face and out she comes.
#8
RE: oil pump drive shaft fell into oil pan now what?
ORIGINAL: tuff5liter
that really sucks....but while its off you might want to go ahead and get a melling high volume oil pump on it and put a reuseable one piece gasket on the car.....you can get the melling oil pump at autozone for like $30 and it even comes with a new oil pump driveshaft with a star washer so this wont happen again :-) Kinda hard to go wrong for $30 since you have to pull **** apart anyway.
that really sucks....but while its off you might want to go ahead and get a melling high volume oil pump on it and put a reuseable one piece gasket on the car.....you can get the melling oil pump at autozone for like $30 and it even comes with a new oil pump driveshaft with a star washer so this wont happen again :-) Kinda hard to go wrong for $30 since you have to pull **** apart anyway.
#9
RE: oil pump drive shaft fell into oil pan now what?
Agreed on the high volume pump. Bad idea.
Before you do anything, I would get a long wand magnet and try to fish it out from the top (Who knows) or drag it along the bottom of the pan and get it out that way.
Before you do anything, I would get a long wand magnet and try to fish it out from the top (Who knows) or drag it along the bottom of the pan and get it out that way.
#10
RE: oil pump drive shaft fell into oil pan now what?
Oh geez, many people including myself run high volume oil pumps with stock pans with zero problems. It's not like its WAY higher volume and is going to suck your pan dry, it's about 25% more I believe.