Toga HV Oil Pump

1992blazeredgs · Post by **1992blazeredgs** » July 29th, 2006, 9:27 am

I recently purchased a toga hv oil pump for my klde rebuild. And since than have heard numerous horror stories about it. I am wondering if i would be better off returning the toga, and just shimming the oil pump that came on my de, and spending the money i get back from the oil pump on an after market oil pressure gage?? Anybody else think thats a good idea?

Nate

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » July 29th, 2006, 3:40 pm

That sounds like a good plan. And a quality oil pressure gauge is only like $60 for an Autometer with electrical sending unit.

PATDIESEL · Post by **PATDIESEL** » July 30th, 2006, 2:58 am

GET THE electrical guage. I bought a mechanical one and it was a PITA to get it to quit leaking. It started on the track (the worst place it could happen). With the action I wasn't getting a chance to look at it under WOT and thus didn't notice an issue. Until I got home and found a oil puddle under the car. It ended up about 2 quarts low.
Also, make sure you get the metric adapter for the pressure sending unit. I think the thread pitch was 1.0, but double check using the stock sending unit to measure from.

Steeb · Post by **Steeb** » July 31st, 2006, 1:59 am

are electrical gauges always better than mechanical ones?

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » July 31st, 2006, 8:40 am

Steeb wrote:are electrical gauges always better than mechanical ones?

Yes, unlike you like running coolant and oil lines to your dash.

1992blazeredgs · Post by **1992blazeredgs** » July 31st, 2006, 10:44 am

I called flatlanderracing today to check into their return policy on the oil pump. The lady i talked to said she had never heard of any complaint ever about the toga oil pump and said they sell tons of them. So i told her about the bad rep on probetalk and she wrote down the site name and said she would look into it. So hopefully something might be done about the toga oil pump for the kl.

Nate

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » July 31st, 2006, 11:07 am

1992blazeredgs wrote:I called flatlanderracing today to check into their return policy on the oil pump. The lady i talked to said she had never heard of any complaint ever about the toga oil pump and said they sell tons of them. So i told her about the bad rep on probetalk and she wrote down the site name and said she would look into it. So hopefully something might be done about the toga oil pump for the kl.

Nate

No complaints my a--. Every single one of those people on PT bought thiers from Flatlander, and many of them gave thier responses from when they CONTACTED Flatlander about thier blown up engine. Either that lady just started working there this week, or she's completely full of s---.

Edit: Went back to the Toga Failure thread on PT, and one guy even posted an email response from Flatlander with the employee's name. So I know the lady you talked to was full of crap.

babyblueMX3 · Post by **babyblueMX3** » July 31st, 2006, 1:54 pm

never had a problem with mine