From: <KENWILFY@aol.com>

   About the oil pump.  Actually with my conversion, using the diesel stuff, all
   I had to do was to put the pickup tube on the exsisting oil pump that the 1.8l
   JH motor already had.

That is what I was trying to say. But the top of the pickup tube is
also the bottom of the gear housing for the oil pump gears, and as such
subject to wear and scratching.

If you get
your pump from an old used diesel you probably want to machine the
mating surface. Hence the note about fly cutting and polishing was not
to make it fit, just to make it as good as new.

   I tried to use the diesel pump and found that the drive
   shaft for it was not the same length (I forget whether it was longer or
   shorter) so I just put the stock pump back in and attached the diesel oil
   pickup tube.

They are even different between the different diesels. The intermediate
shaft drives both the vaccum pump up on the block (Where the distributor
is on gas engines) and oil pump on the bottom, and because of the different
block heights these parts won't interchange between the 1.9l and 1.6l Diesels.

   So actually you only need the diesel oil pickup tube from the dealer or parts
   place.

Don't think you can buy just the tube. So either you have to shell out
for a whole pump, or get the pickup tube from a junker, and fix it up.

/m
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