Oil pump

[Xlargetophat]

I wonder what kind of oil pump we're getting. If it's electric.. will the vehicle tell us if the electric pump has failed? So we don't fry our motors.. and pay for an expensive big motor... And how hard will it be to replace... Jack down the huge motor to replace a junky little electric motor.. no bigger than a window wiper motor..

It would be cool if we could have easy access through trap doors on the truck bed to do repairs. Like replace sensors or oil pumps.. without having to jack things down from underneath. No trucks that I know of do this.. but it seems like common sense.

 

[Chavannigans]

There are temp sensors that will shut the party down if they get too hot.


If there is an oil pump, and it’s electric because there isn’t a mechanical driveline to turn pumps at both of the axles, there would be a fault code if it failed and would most likely derate power and set off warnings.

If the oil pump does fail it would be foolish to not crack the motor open and inspect it. You should be dropping the whole drive unit down and ensuring there aren’t shavings or accelerated wear on components and not just throwing a new pump in it.

The oil pump on my Lexus requires tearing the entire front of the engine down to replace it so it’s not always an easy swap on ICE vehicles either.

I think the easiest oilpump to access was the AMC V8 engines. It was on the front cover and you could replace the gears in about 20 minutes with a wrench.

But it was also a terrible design. A gear that rode on the came shaft turned the gear on the distributor that was installed in the front cover, and the oil pump splined into the distributor shaft from the bottom. But if you replaced the gasket on the timing front cover, you potentially changed the mesh of the distributor gear that also turned your oil pump.