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Old 12-20-2016, 12:44 PM   #22
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Name: RonA
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Originally Posted by T-MAN View Post
If you feel its the pickup tube why dont you throw 6 extra quarts of oil in it to get it completely submerged in oil? probably be a little easier then pulling the motor again.. If it still wont prime then jack up the rear and flood the pump, If that wont build pressure that check valve is stuck...
We did that before we removed the motor. I made a block off plate with a nipple on it so we could put it over the oil pup and try to suck oil through the pickup tube up to the pump. It pulled oil up from the pan fine, once back together it starts if you fill the hpop res. but dies in around 10 seconds. There does not seem to be any oil going to the oil filter though. Front cover has no galling, new gasket on pickup tube, new melling high volume pump.
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