If it's a County brand pump, beware. I got 60K miles on one, but when
it started to leak I replaced it with a quality rebuild. Unfortunately,
the rubber bellows on the seal split on a road trip and I had Moss
overnight a new pump (County) which I installed in a motel parking lot.
On first start, the shaft separated and the fan went into my radiator,
causing a leak. Overnighted another--with a new radiator--and it
arrived with a broken shaft, even though I had instructed Moss to
inspect it carefully before shipping. Had to trailer the car home from
Green River, WY. Moss made good on the parts and split the cost of the
trailer with me.
Bob
On 4/20/2017 1:53 AM, Robert F. Begani wrote:
>
> I just loved Perry?s detailed accurate report on the history of
> finding parts for our Healey?s.
>
> On that subject, last spring I removed the engine in my BJ8 and had it
> machined. My good friend who is a retired machinist and I assembled
> it and then I left Florida for the summer. He finished it and put it
> in my garage. So after a year of scrubbing the oil and grease from the
> engine bay , frame, touch up painting and so on we are installing the
> engine and trans next week. During our discussions this week about
> did you???, he said ?did I tell you about the water pump??
>
> It seems the frame of the pump did not meet the opening on the
> engine. As a machinist he always checks to see if one part is a
> mirror image of the other part when joining two parts. He ground out
> 3/4? from one side of the pump opening. He suggests the engine might
> run cooler with a larger flow of water through the pump which was
> purchased and installed 5 years ago from a well-known supplier so I
> did not replace it on the engine rebuild. So much for today?s parts!
>
> Still they are better and easier to obtain than days gone by.
>
> Bob Begani
>
> BJ8 67
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://autox.team.net/pipermail/healeys/attachments/20170420/db7f52a5/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: IMG_0352.JPG
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1283871 bytes
Desc: not available
URL:
<http://autox.team.net/pipermail/healeys/attachments/20170420/db7f52a5/attachment.jpe>
|