was hoping to not have to do this for quite a while

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engine is out..... oil pump went last saturday

225,000 miles and lots of very cold starts without being plugged in here in the maine winters must have done it in.

didnt do any engine damage, wasnt driven without oil pressure etc. should be back up and running saturday if all goes well and parts come on time.

i'll make sure to post pictures of the original pumps internals and what exactly is damaged etc.

as far as i can tell this is the only dmax oil pump failure that i've been able to find that is from age etc and not eating metal from a turbo etc ??? seems like its a 1 in a million failure that i was so lucky to experience.
 
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:( Good luck in the repair.

Casper lost an oil pump on the original engine... Seems the nut fell off IIRC
 
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Man you took more off the front then I would off.Parts are ordered and should be in my hands on wed afternoon,Will be at fedex after that.We found the gear spun on that LB7 we built and that pump had around 190k on it.
 
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ripmf666 said:
Man you took more off the front then I would off.Parts are ordered and should be in my hands on wed afternoon,Will be at fedex after that.We found the gear spun on that LB7 we built and that pump had around 190k on it.
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So the rest of us can understand please:joker:
 
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i had the nut come loose 35k ago... locktite and retorque and it was fine ever since
 
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Man you took more off the front then I would off.Parts are ordered and should be in my hands on wed afternoon,Will be at fedex after that.We found the gear spun on that LB7 we built and that pump had around 190k on it.
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i pulled the bumper cause i'm going to repaint it while its off.... other than that i think everything else i took off had to come out. took me 4 hours to pull it out with some help from my brother, didnt think that was bad for the first time and i wasnt very motivated to get it out and having twins certainly doesnt make things go any faster, seems to add a few steps to getting it out.


looking forward to getting it back on the road.
 
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mainer said:
i pulled the bumper cause i'm going to repaint it while its off.... other than that i think everything else i took off had to come out. took me 4 hours to pull it out with some help from my brother, didnt think that was bad for the first time and i wasnt very motivated to get it out and having twins certainly doesnt make things go any faster, seems to add a few steps to getting it out.


looking forward to getting it back on the road.
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You don't have to pull the whole core support. Just the bar that runs across the top and the bar that goes between that bar and the frame rail in front of the cooling stack.
 
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good thing is the engine itself still runs great after 225k miles!

throw a new oil pump on 'er and drive it another 225k! :D
 
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