So I can weld up a 5/8" barb and it will be fine?
It seems I have an issue with using the vane pump. The hole in my block is not near big enough for it. So I guess the diaphram pump will be getting rebuilt.
What are you doing to make up the oil capacity that's lost to the clearancing? It looks like you loose nearly half a litre of capacity.
VW Taro badge? I need more info on that. The best solution I have to fix the oil loss from that notch is too install a remote oversize oil filter but that has its own issues. I am not SAS swapping this truck. The web wheelers can have that, for what I do IFS is perfect.