oil pump help

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Ron Gusack

So you tap the rear main cap that's actually going on the race engine? How else could you determine that there was a mating surface leak. Do you leave the threads in the cap when it goes on the race motor?

Ron, I think I said I used an old main cap. If I had a piece of aluminium plate on hand at the time, I would have made a test fixture from that. The cap is tapped for a pipe thread, with a hose and oil pressure gauge screwed into the oil passage. It ain't purty, jut a quickie with what I could find at the time, about twenty years ago. Works, so I still use it. I just don't get it out and show it off. :-)

I am not a professional engine builder. I just cobble my own crap together, and have helpped a couple of other guys in the past. Someone like Adger differs, I defer to them.