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Ok so I'm putting my 3400 back together (thanks to all for your support/advice). Shortblock going in, head going on, went to slip the oil pump drive in and guess what - what I thought was "the oil pump drive shaft" and goes in the top as per the Ford manual is actually "the intermediate shaft" which goes in the bottom!
Gasket set came with two different thickness gaskets, I put the thinner one on my cast iron pan and of course copper sprayed it so it's shredded. Do I go buy a new thin gasket, use the thicker one or just RTV the pan on?
I'm leaning towards running the thicker one.
And I spent 45 some minutes trying to wiggle that durned intermediate shaft into place through the drive plug - 3rd time it dropped into the pan I couldn't get the magnet on it.
Gasket set came with two different thickness gaskets, I put the thinner one on my cast iron pan and of course copper sprayed it so it's shredded. Do I go buy a new thin gasket, use the thicker one or just RTV the pan on?
I'm leaning towards running the thicker one.
And I spent 45 some minutes trying to wiggle that durned intermediate shaft into place through the drive plug - 3rd time it dropped into the pan I couldn't get the magnet on it.
