The hole in my pickup tube casting was the result of a catastrophic failure
of a piston at highway speed.  The bottom half of the piston disintigrated,
spreading large and small chunks of metal throughout the running engine
before I got it stopped.

Mike Snow

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> How in the world did you get that big hole in you pick-up tube?
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> Entity Michael Snow spoke thus:
> > filling the pump from the top, it would only hold pressure for about 10
> > seconds.  That's how we discovered the dime-sized hole in my
> pickup tube.
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