Three days and counting;
Sprite progress; none. Thought about it tho.
Riley progress; Hoo boy. Let me tell you about this
water pump thing- Took all I could get apart to a
microabrasive blast shop yesterday at lunch. The
proprietor & I had a good laugh over all the buildup &
general design of this component. He didn't have a
press and didn't want the liability of destroying the
impeller/shaft/pulley, so I took this part back to the
shop to press it apart myself. I managed to get the
impeller off, but not w/o breaking in two a small carbon
spacer ring (hey, what's things thing do, anyway ?), and
so dropped the impeller off after work. Much to my
surprise he'd had all the other parts done, and they
looked beautiful ! We went on about the design & mfg.
of these pieces, how ancient the design was, etc. and
while talking thru how the sliding-collar thermostat
works, we realized that in adding the heater and
associated hook-up pipes, the P.O. had brazed in the
feed line at a point that would become blocked when the
thermostat opened !! Consequently the heater would only
have water circulating thru it when the engine was
below operating temp, but once warmed up would be
bypassed. As the shop owner said, "someone didn't have
a very clear picture of how this thing works". At home
last night I managed to press the pulley off, and so
now just have to knock the bearings out & match them
up, and I reviewed my Riley books to see how the heater
was *correctly* hooked up. Apparently it was an option
in '48, and the only pictures I found didn't say where
the H/U points were. Oh well, at least I know where
they don't go. I'll keep you posted-
cheers-
dstone@sc9.intel.com
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