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[Money_pit]

Not much help on straight 6's. Do they have the bolt that holds the rod in the engine while you swap it out right? Is it possible someone had the bolt too tight and rounded the lobeoff cam?

[barmanvarn]

Originally Posted by Money_pit

Not much help on straight 6's. Do they have the bolt that holds the rod in the engine while you swap it out right? Is it possible someone had the bolt too tight and rounded the lobeoff cam?

Ok, bear with me here. I'm a newbie to this so it'll likely end up that I did something stupid.....

Is there actually an actuator rod involved here? I did some reading earlier and that seemed to be a V8 thing (if I read it correctly). My limited research says the pump on my L6 works via a lobe on a cam. Again, I could be wrong here.

I didn't do anything special when I put the pump in last January. Just bolted it on and it worked fine. So I didn't do anything special when I installed this pump a few weeks ago.

I checked for suction at the inlet and got nothing. I also ran a line straight from a portable gas can straight to the pump and still nothing.