Please forgive the self-pitying dispair, but I'm gettin' a bit bummed out.
So I post a question about my 235 oil pump over at inliners. Maybe because I'm new there or something, but I got two responses and my thread died.
You guys here have done what you could, and made several good suggestions. TomL and Patrick have also lent their expertise, and been very helpful. However, even they can't tell me what happened. Since I can't find an obvious defect with their products, they infer that the problem is not with parts I bought from them. Local mechanics are worse than useless. The only local resource that may pan out is my machinist who knows what he's doing. But I never have a time to get down there during business hours.
What am I supposed to do? Just throw it back together and hope it doesn't tear up again? Here is the damning part, from a mechanical anaysis:
Has anybody had a problem with their Melling Pump? Its usually a reliabe product from a proven company.
There are a lot of Stovebolt 'mini' HEIs running around, so its not like this is a one-off crappy conversion that just flew apart.
The M4F camshaft is a proven piece, with lots of them running in 235/261s with no similar failure Im aware of.
There is no known machining problem associated with '60 235 blocks, that Im aware of. If there is a problem with my block I'm screwed, cuz there is no way to fix the oil pump mount geometery.
So am I supposed to install a new oil pump, cram a distributor in the hole, and hope I don't wipe the bearings out this time? Sounds a bit un-scientific. This can't be a good way to run a railroad???
chip
