[Healeys] overdrive oil pump question

[George Haywood]

Hi all,
What could be the problem when the pump body of the OD on a bj8 will not 
come out of the unit after the non return valve assembly has been removed?  
The pump shaft goes up and down when manually operated but the body will not 
come out even with a lot of force on a puller attached to the threads on the 
pump body.  I am afraid of destroying something if more force is used.  Is 
there a need to remove this if there is spring action on the plunger shaft 
as indicated?  It appears that I don't have any oil pressure to operate the 
OD.  The operating valve appears to be moving normally when the solenoid is 
activated.  Sunday my rebuilder will be coming over and I want to have some 
suggestions for him from you all.  The OD is still in the car and we will go 
through all the suggested checks then if nothing can be found we will tear 
the bugger out.

When he rebuilt the OD he could not get the pump body out of the casing but 
the action seemed OK to him so he rebiult everything else and assembled the 
unit.  He said the pump usually never fails.

PLease give me a direction to proceed if you can.

Thanks,

George
'65 bj8

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