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My Subaru had 120-plus pounds cold idle pressure.

My engine, with 80 lbs cold idle pressure and 30+ at idle I was fine with. At crising speeds on freeway (2000-2500 rpm) the gauge showed 70-plus lbs, and I had no problems with those numbers at all.

My drive pin is extra beefy and doesn't twist, it shears pins.

Since I have installed the finer mesh screen on my pickup though, I was considering dropping a weight (from 20-50 to 10-40) and that seemed like an OK thing to do since my pressures were as high as they were when I had the 20-50 in it.

Granted, I have maybe a couple hours of experience driving this engine before the pump failure.

To start with though, I'm going to put the 20-50 back in, just the way it was before, and I think my screen mesh mod to the pickup should work just fine.

The guy I talked with at Aviad said IF there were to be any problems,it would be when the engine is cold, not hot, which indicates to me it is just very important to warm the engine oil up before running the engine hard at higher rpm's.