Thread: I found what blew in my engine!

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Me too, Steve. For sure something reshaped that flat plate into a bowl shape. I know it was perfectly flat to start with because I had the back of the pump off to replace that blown gasket in Daytona and looked it over carefully. I was trying to see if I could determine the direction the pump was supposed to go (I was afraid they inadvertently shipped me a serpentine version) so I was peering under that plate to try to see how the vanes were aimed.

When I pulled the back off when we were home there was this little cupped thing inside there, instead of the flat plate. It just amazes me that whatever forces were working on it created an almost perfect lip around the edge. I would have expected the plate to be all chewed up, but not uniformly distorted like it was. I guess I'll never know.

Don