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Originally Posted by T Scott
I agree with deuce roadster. Something does not seem right. I am not totally familiar with Ford oil pumps, however I am familiar with metering gear pumps. I have never seen a gear pump that did not have tight clearances between the gear faces and outer diameter and the pump body. Maybe I'm way off base but looking the photo I don't understand how this pump can pump anything. Are these the wrong gears in this pump?
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Those are not the oil pump gears, which are down in the oil pump in the engine sump. Those gears transfer the power from the rear of the camshaft to the actual oil pump.
The gears looked funny to me too, until I realized that there was an odd perspective in the photo. As soon as I got my eyes right the optical illusion of a "dished gear" went away.