All week long I’ve been trying to figure out what to do about the oil pump pick up tube, now that the external -16 contraption won’t work. I went to Home Depot and bought a bunch of 1” plumbing fittings, and some steel 1” threaded pipe. The fittings were galvanized, and despite grinding off the galvanizing, the fitting welded like sht. I made sure that they were steel, but it was still a disaster.
Besides that,..it was gonna look like ass.
I needed to turn the entrance fitting 90*, tightly so that it would not be lower than the bottom of the pan. I got online and found two steel -16 90* fittings, and ordered them from summit. They had to come from the mfg...I still don’t have them.
I got online again looking for mild steel 1” mandrel bends so I could make the damn thing. I found th too, but the bend radius was too lazy, and would end up hanging just as low as the -16 hose end was.
While I was online, I start looking for some large diameter pick-up tube from some other vehicle, figuring maybe something like an F250 superduty would have a big assed pick-up tube. I stumbled into some diesel dude talking about how restrictive the factory Dodge Cummins diesel pick up tube was, with it’s 7/8” I’d , and several tight 90 degree bends..
That vid killed the plan to put those tight 90* fittings ( that still aren’t here) anywhere in the new design.
The whole week goes by, the engine is hanging with its pan off, it’s in my phckin way,...I gotta figure something out.
On Wednesday, 4 days since having to pull the engine back out of the car, I call the machine shop that decked my block and asked him if he had some big assed I.d. pick-up tube laying around that I could buy from him so I could cut it up and make one.
He said he did,..but it was in the other shop, and he’d have to hunt it up. That took till today. When I get there, he’s got two of the things from a Cummins diesel laying there, clean, waiting on me.
He won’t accept any money from me.
I get home and measure these things, they are 7/8” I.d. I need 1”. I decide to make two of them, and Siamese the two of them at the inlet. Whether just one would’ve been adequate, I’ll never know..the pan is now cut the hell up, and there is two of those damn things in there.
So,...now it won’t matter how hard I rage around the corner, there’s always gonna be some submerged pick up tube.
those heads are screened underneath,.for whatever reason I decided to make them removeable,...(like I’ll ever be able to get the tubes completely clean, ever again.)
I figured I’d put them in the pan. they’re tigged. If there’s some small pinhole in one of the welds, it can leak
in the pan.
The outside however is migged...I trust that weld not to leak.
It does look kinda hideous though...but it doesn’t hang below the bottom of the pan, and it should never starve for oil.
i dont know Mike that car had alot of YEE YEE not sure you could handle it.. I mean you dont even have a mullet.
to roll coal!) and put stacks on it and you'd get all of Arkansas too.
