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Run Without An Oil Screen


Tonik

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So the oil screen on my oil pump pickup is fubar'd.  Can't get one in time for my tomorrow planned trip to the dragon.  I am seriously considering running without it. Not like there is a bunch of shit in my engine to f' up my oil pump.

 

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What about tossing some screen over the pickup and holding it in place with safety wire? Kind of hillbilly, but it would suffice until your trip was over.

 

Mine is more like a condom. I could rig something up, but I worry my rigging would fail and get sucked into the pump.

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I'd make "something" work just in case. That would be quite a tow bill back if something happened down there, not to mention it wouldn't take much large debris to seize/frag a gear pump and inflate your repair bill.

If it's a steel sump pipe, I'd maybe hoseclamp some screen around it.

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