Quote Originally Posted by Storm Trooper View Post
You should always run a hardened oil pump shaft! They have a metal retainer pined on the assembly.
Yeah, I do run a metal pump shaft; I'm talking about the upper drive gear stub that goes up top on LT1s; no one sells it in metal that I know of anymore:

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