v6 97s10 pickup mystery fuel pump

[sirsedrith]

Hi there everyone. I just purchased an S10 from my buddy and it has a bad fuel pump, as stated by him from the GM repair dude. it does start, but he says it dies unexpectedly. Ill take his word for it and replace it, which I have started to do with much enthusiaism. All was going well until i cleaned off all the dirt and crap off of the pump and saw it did not have a familiar compession ring with tabs and skrewdriver marks all over it, but a huge, huge C clip, you know the kind, with the little holes in the end of them? aparently holding in the pump. well we all know how to deal with this, pry the damn thing off and pull the pump. BUT! the pump will not come out. it will move up a little with a great deal of force from the screwdriver but i can tell all im doing is compressing the gasket and not moving it up any, and it pops down as soon as i let go. that tells me there is somthing on the under side of the pump holding it in, like clips or a plastic nut the same diameter as the pump body (i know this sounds rediculous, but what else could it be???) it will not twist out either, as there is a tab on the pump that indexes with the ring spot welded to the tank. what the F***!!!!!! this thing is beyond my narrow scope of experience and no other forum or diy or how to talks about this kind of tank and pump set up. Has anyone else seen this and pulled the pump without resorting to redneck reasoning? (someone suggested cutting it out, deffiately not. ) (excuse spelling, please)

[sirsedrith]

UPDATE. Took the tank around town and a mechanic stuck a screwdriver under it and pried on it till popped it loose. End of story. thanks for reading, atleast. peace. BTW onlyfuelpumps on Ebay seems like a good store o buy these things from. my pump without the body and all that is 68.98 or so and they are tested by RCE which makes high test fuel injectors etc.

[iRIDElow]

glad you got it working now tho