Reusing oil pump tube
Posted: December 11th, 2015, 3:34 pm
I'm rebuilding my first stroker build after about 800 miles because I used the wrong piston rings. I believe that my oil pump is still good, but there is a little bit of debris in the middle of the screen that I can remove, and after that, it will be all clear of debris because there isn't any heavy sludge blocking anything. The little bit of debris are a few small pieces of met6al and a tiny bit of sludge in the center of the screen, but too big to get pass the screen. My question is, should I be good with just cleaning out that debris, and maybe spinning the gear to pump some clean oil through the pump to flush it out? Or should I replace the pickup tube?