Tighten until you hear the crack, then back it off a quarter turn.

The push to return to office is nothing more than a push to thin out the numbers. Much cheaper for them to jump themselves than be pushed by management.

Meanwhile, us New Zealand gamers are eagerly waiting for free slots on the Aussie servers.

Pretty sure I heard AvE say “tighten it 'til you hear the crack, then back it off a quarter turn” in one of his videos ;'D

OK, I’ve opened my Bykski DDC pump fitted to my 7000D disto place and it’s identical to the Barrow DDC pump fitted to the LTPRP-04 - both circuit boards are labelled as “Q2C-12B”.

Also, this video shows the factory “Q2C-12B” pump in the Barrow LTPRKA-04, and others on Reddit etc have reported success in swapping this out for an EK DDC.

Given this, I’ll go ahead and buy the EK DDC 4.2 PWM pump to replace my Bykski “B-PMD3-COV” and report back my findings next week.

Thank you for your feedback. I’ve read that the Bykski DDC pump is a “clone” of the Xylem / Laing DDC pump - so I was hopeful that the EKWB / Xylem / Liang DDC pump would mate to the Bykski disto plate.

I’m still very eager to hear from anyone who has replaced a Bykski DDC with a EKWB / Xylem / Liang DDC pump.

In the meantime I’ll follow your advice (partially). I’ll drain the loop and try disassembling the pump and cleaning it internally, as my father-in-law used to run the EK Solid / Matte CryoFuel coolant which may have gummed up the impeller and thrown off the balance.