Good morning, Gentlemen-
As some of you may remember, I've worked in the drilling industry in one way or another my entire life. I've always liked that song, even back when the Kingston Trio's singer had hair (like Perry...). This discussion and my recent tasks has had me humming it to myself for three or four days so I just had to share. I was going to write more, but TWWTFM had dinner ready, pork chops and pasta salad and I wasn't gonna let her pasta salad wait...
What happened was, having installed the oil pan the other day (For the SECOND Time), I put 4 quarts of oil in it. I used Earl's special skinny Snap-On 1/4 drive socket that fits over the oil pump drive shaft and a drill to spin the oil pump and get some oil moving around the block. Nothing... It just spun. No resistance to speak of. The shaft was sitting right there, had not fallen into the sump. I tried half-a-dozen times, got nothing.
Sooooo, I drained the oil into a plastic pitcher that TWWTFM hasn't yet missed out of her kitchen (I didn't have a Bitters jar...) and off came the F*#&ing 16 bolts and I dropped the pan. This is what I found:
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That's the end of the shaft sitting on the slightly rounded top side of the pump, and not in its socket where it's supposed to be. How it got out is beyond me... What kept it from falling into the sump whilst I was messing with it is beyond me. (OK, lots of stuff is beyond me, but these two items are the most recent.) I do have the little "basket" thing on the shaft that is supposed to keep it from pulling upward and dis-connecting itself. Had to fight with that to put the little bastige back in!
Next set of pictures is about me "Priming the pump" (Cue the Kingston Trio!). The pictures are sort of faked, I have to admit. It takes one hand to hold the little bowl of oil and one hand to reach up and grab the drill and no hands left for the camera. I did put the bowl of oil up to the pickup, like you see here.
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Then you give the drill a spin or three:
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And the pump picks up the oil out of the little bowl and you got yourself a primed pump.
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You must have faith, you must believe!!!
Then the pan went back into position (For the THIRD time!!!) and the F*#&ing 16 bolts went back in and I poured the oil back into the engine. (Y'all remind me to wash that pitcher out real good and put it back before TWWTFM misses it, OK?) Then, since I hadn't made quite enough mess in the shop yet, I put the socket-and-drill back onto the pump shaft and spun it a few times. Only took a few seconds and there was oil flowing out of the rockers.
It was a marvelous sight... I thanked the Lord, I thanked the pump and I thank you all for your help and support!This concludes our religious programming for today. Tune in next week...
Peace, Love and "Where's My Tea Pitcher?"
JDK
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