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Originally Posted by vatdevil
I've never heard of a pickup tube breaking in one of these cars. My concern is are there others out there that could face the same issue? IMHO, I believe Eric didn't have to fix the motor in the first place, but he did.
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I have, I've personally seen 2 others in 460's, both were full blown race cars thought and rear sumps.......Best guess was the rigid motor mounts (vibration) and such and the fact they were both rear sump pans....Long pickup tube from the front to the rear sump pan and only one support tab to the main cap..The fix was to weld 2 support tabs to the pickup tube bolted to 2 different main cap bolts........
it happens.......stuff breaks.....
luckily, both cars had 20 psi
oil pressure kill switches, shuts the engines off when the
oil pressure drops below 20 psi, no damage to either high dollar race engine....
David