[Healeys] Oil Pump Removal with Engine in Car

Ricchardd Mayor boyracer466 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 19:16:23 MST 2022


The boss that the oil pump bolts to will keep the shaft from falling out. No need to fish out the pump. It comes straight down once you unbolt it. 


Richard Mayor
Portland, Oregon
boyracer466 at gmail.com





> On Feb 18, 2022, at 5:45 PM, Henry G Leach via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> That same shaft drives the tach and I believe a magnet properly placed can keep it from dropping if you can carefully fish the pump body down and out.
> 
> Suggest you pack the new pump with Vaseline to prime it when you replace it. Be careful what you use to seal the sump to the block gasket. If its too good (like right stuff!) you will break the alloy upon removal. I use permatex to the sump, and only oil to the block. Hank
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> From: "Alan Garrison via Healeys" 
> To: "Healeys"
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday February 17 2022 3:06:36PM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Oil Pump Removal with Engine in Car
> 
> Simon
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> It was the 2nd paragraph of Section A.8 (2) that raised the question “… driveshaft will be free to disengage from the camshaft and care must be taken to prevent it falling out.”
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> I’m fitting an AH Spares alloy sump and need to modify the pump.
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> Thanks.
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>  
> Alan
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> From: simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com <simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 5:12 PM
> To: 'Alan Garrison' <a2garrison at charter.net>
> Cc: 'Healeys' <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: RE: [Healeys] Oil Pump Removal with Engine in Car
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> That’s an interesting question…..and I’m not 100% sure why one might want to do it.
> 
> I swapped my pump quite recently, 2018, because I found a Denis Welch pump going very cheaply on eBay.
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> I don’t recall every moment, but I surely don’t recall any problem extracting or replacing the pump drive shaft. And I don’t recall any reason why there would be.
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> See the attached, which you’ve probably already got.
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> The only way that occurs to me to achieve your actual aim might be to turn the car upside down!!
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> But, good luck anyway,
> 
> Simon
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> From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net <>> On Behalf Of Alan Garrison via Healeys
> Sent: 17 February 2022 20:35
> To: healeys at autox.team.net <>
> Subject: [Healeys] Oil Pump Removal with Engine in Car
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> Planning to remove the oil pump from my 100-6 while the engine remains in the car. Any suggestions on how to retain the pump drive shaft in place?
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> Thanks.
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> Alan
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