My oil pump housing shot oil today (@ the bolt location that has to be installed inside the cover under the filter )when I primed the pump. It could be one of two things that I can tell. One is that the ear that protrudes from the pump cover with the bolt threads in it is partially broken on the outside. It still has adequete threads and does not compromise the sealing surface on the back side for gasket compression. I don't think that is it it's so small and on the front. The other item is a booster plate from postons. While running the drill, oil spurts at this area and when I disassembled it, it had enough of a gap between the pump housing and the booster surface that red engine paint had seeped into this area after the bolts had been torqued. I reassembled with a new gasket and the same result almost like that surface area is open. Could that booster plate be a little off on the surface or could it be that ear.
