Do I need a hardened intermediate shaft for a HV oil pump?

DartVadar said

And because I forgot to plug the oil pressure sender hole I had a geiser of oil shoot up straight in the air, funny now that it's all cleaned up!

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Kinda like the time I poured oil into the distributor hole above a blocked off fuel pump mount.....when I had forgotten to put on the block-off plate. I looked AFTER 3 qts were on the floor! LOL