<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">As you point out Bob, a Zerk fitting with sealed bearings is a worry.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"> I also notice that the plug in the body of the 100 pump is an Allen head and what's the bet that the heater nipple on that pump is required because the thread is not the unusual 5/8"  16T.P.I. thread required by the original tap.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I also notice that the 100 pump rad hose connector has a bulb end. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">On the 6 cylinder pump I don't like the look of that short cartridge bearing which, with the load imparted by a "V" belt, will almost certainly have limited life because of the decreased race spread.  <br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Why do they insist on reinventing the wheel?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">M<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 9:40 AM Bob Spidell <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Looks like we might have a solution to the bad water pumps, i.e. County, <br>
that have been proffered by some:<br>
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NFI, and I have no experience with them, but there's hope.  I don't see <br>
the correct pulley for BJ8s, though, and they appear to have both sealed <br>
bearings and zerks(?).<br>
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