When trying to install the pickup tube I realized when they brazed it to fix it the plate where it
bolts to the main cap was a little off. Then when snugging every thing down I
broke the mounting bracket on my new oil pump 
Next step, buy another oil pump again and get a pickup tube from Dooley that hasn't been
fucked over by some dumbass
Your disregard to properly fit the aftermarket components to your custom engine build is
the reason the pump broke, and also the number one reason for the Ford 460 oil pump breaking and
why it has received an erroneously poor reputation on the internet, not because of some other
"dumbass" as you allege.
Your oil pump broke because you stressed it while forcing the pickup tube mountng bracket
into place.
You should have test fitted the part, evaluated the amount of adjustment necessary
(in order to locate the mounting bracket to the mounting stud), then removed the pickup and
adjusted the mounting bracket, then rechecked fitment, and repeat this process as many times as
necessary until all mating parts seat perfectly before any bolts are installed and tightened.Instead, you
forced your pickup support bracket into place (to the main bolt's stand-off stud), which
sends a lot of leveraged load against the pump, and thereby stresses the neck of the pump before you
even finished bulding your engine!
If you were installing your connecting rods to your crankshaft and the rods didn't fit because
the crankshaft's rod journals were too large for the big end of the rods, would you tighten the rod
bolts and force the rod caps around the crankshaft journal anyway??? How about a distributor that didn't
drop into the block, would you install the bolt-down clamp at the distributor base and
drive it in?Of course not.
90% of the time when someone comes onto the internet and claims that their BBF oil pump broke, they
are oblivous to the fact that it broke due to
their poor setup during installation. That part of the story is
unknowingly ommited and instead the story is started at the point of oil pump breakage.
Avenger, my intention is not to isolate your situation and beat you up; I
do mean to use this as an
example of what many,
many people mistakenly do during engine assembly (not just you). Lucky for
you your pump broke in front of you due to your install and not while you were flying along in your boat.
LO