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Re: cam break in?'s

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Subject: Re: cam break in?'s
From: Walt Boeninger <walt.boeninger@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:28:51 -0700
Can you take a dead distributor and gut it to use
as an oil pump primer....... that's what I use on my
Fords..   A piece of plastic tube would never work
on a Ford SB, it takes a lot of torque to turn the
oil pump.....

Walt
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Jim Davis wrote:

> You'll have to make one, as I don't think they are available
> commercially. I've never done this on the oil pump, but a piece of
> rubber tube over the oil pump shaft and a similar size bit in your drill
> may work. It works on transmission input shafts. 
> Otherwise, you could machine or have machined a slot in a 1/2" dia. rod
> to match the oil pump shaft.
> 
> Jim Davis
> Fortson, GA
> CF38690UO
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> 
> Where can you get this "Adapter" for the distributor housing?
> 
> Gene,
> Cell    - 201-981-3327
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