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Good catch!
You have to watch out for the jobbers as well. I had to eat a 9k repair bill after Maxi-Force passed this off to me as a new "OE" pump for a 9 liter Deere engine. It was manufactured in South America. Shaft end play was within spec but the internal driven gear had .012" of end play...
Ya, that was my first thought, but he said there was no other debris in the pan.
I have twice repaired 5.9 Cummins with the drive end of their camshafts snapped off. On both engines, the same screw for the gear case had backed out and landed in the bite. The crunched screws were hard to miss in...
It almost looks like the pump broke first and the gear teeth were damaged when it jumped out of alignment. Did you open the old pump up to see if there was any indicators that something possibly entered into it? If something passed through the pump, you may find it in the old filter if you still...
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