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You are very lucky that you didn't break the camshaft gear off the camshaft when you tighened the pump up, I like to dry fit my pumps before installing them, during the buildup of the engine with the flywheel and camshaft laying in the case half, I fit the oil pump to it to make sure everything clears, yes I have had to adjust a few oil pumps to clear. Phil --- Dave Sanderson <porschedave@rennlist.net> wrote: > hi All > > When we got Matt's new engine running we had a > pretty serious oil > leak from the oil pump. I have not experienced this > before and was a > bit surprised. After much foolin' around, trying > different solutions, > we finally realized that the problem was that the > pump was too long > for the space between the cam and the case. We have > a pump for a flat > cam, a flat cam and yet it was too long - but only > by a very small > margin. I filed the end of the housing, that is the > section that > sticks towards the cam and holds the gear that > interfaces with the > cam, by a thou or so and now, voila no leaks. This > is a new 30 mm > pump from Shadeck. Has anyone else had this > experience. Is this > something that happens with these new Brazilian > pumps? Thanks. Cheers. > > Dave > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | > mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com