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Hey all.......well its time to hook up oil lines. I have the manual for years 78-84(mines 82 shovel)covers shovel and evo so im posting pic of oil pump and wanted some input to make sure i have them right. If you could take a look and let me know where lines go. thanx in advance..Jer

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soory meant to ask specifically:

Top fitting coming strait out -

2 that are side by side-

1 at bottom that stands alone 90's down-

thanx jer

1. oil feed from tank
2. oil return to tank or oil cooler
3. breather to tank
4. chain oiler (controlled by the screw)

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Also, behind the oil pump are two more fittings. The lower one (closest to the pump) is the case breather that you can route over your chain or just to the atmosphere (i'd recommend a cheap fuel filter on the end on it to keep debris out) and the other on the side of the crank case, is the oil return (suction) from the primary. If you are running a sealed or dry primary, plug this off with a pipe fitting.
EASY

easy............thanx so much brotha.thats what i thot but always like to get input from here! ..thanx again...jer

so another question......feed from oil tank should go to external oil filter(mounted under regulator up front now) first then to pump correct? just makin sure its right. thanx.jer

NOPE! From oil tank to pump, return from pump to oil filter then to the tank. If you try to feed from the tank to the filter and then to the pump, you WILL starve your motor of it's lifeblood.
EASY

whew! thanx easy that does sound more right now i think about it!.thanx again!.....Jer

That's what we are here for....
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also meant to ask......im using this oil filter set up which mounts to the front motor mount and regulator mounts to it......i assume that intake for oil is line that is in line with filter? no instructions came with it so figured i'd ask.cuz im wrong often..thanx in advance...........jer

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in from outside of eleme nt,  out thru center back to tank.
  packrat56

Yeah that's right. The one closest to the mount hole goes to the oil pump, the one closest to the filter goes to the oil tank. To be safe, leave the hose clamps loose, if you hook it up backwards the hose will pop off since the filters usually have a one way valve in them.
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I ve attached another pic of the oil filter mount I bought.....wouldnt the oil feed from pump go into the line that is connected to where the filter mounts so oil would drop down thru center of filter(threaded on filter and black threaded on mount shown) then fill up filter and after filtered would flow back up thru holes in top of filter and thru the hole on flat under side of chrome mount and back to tank??......just makin sure i got it right...tia.....jer

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............or do i have it backerds?.jer

Like I told ya, leave the clamps loose at start up, if it's backwards, it'll pop a line off.
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