1/16/2005: Water Pump Finished
As I mentioned a while back, I am replacing the water pump on my car with a
NOS one I purchased on ebay. The pump came “bare” and needed to have the
pulley from one of my other pumps pressed onto it.
Here’s the result:
I’m pretty happy with how it came out. It took me a few tries to get the
fan to look good. I ended up sanding it with 320, 400, 600, 1000, and 2000
grit sandpaper to take out the scratches. At each level, I would sand
(wet) in straight lines, in both directions.
Then I buffed it very lightly with a string wheel and plastic polish on my
bench grinder. Pushing too hard on this soft plastic can very easily melt
it, and I did have to redo a few spots until I got the right feel for it.
My overall goal wasn’t to make this fan translucent or extremely shiny, just
to remove the deep scratches and make it look clean. I think it came out
well.
The metal parts were re-plated, and came out pretty looking decent. The
plater left a protective coating on the parts that gave them a slightly
powdery appearance. On large parts like these rings, I found that a very
light application of metal polish takes that off and shines them up.
(Hopefully without taking any of the cadmium off)
You can see some pitting on the outer ring.. I probably could have prepared
that part better before plating, but it’s fine.
When I originally disassembled these water pumps I used an air chisel with a
blunt tip to losen the large nut on the end of the pulley. While this
works fine, it does damage the nut slightly. For reassembling it, I
decided to try to make a wrench to fit it.
I got this idea from Kerry
Chesbro’s site. It appears that ferrari used an identical nut to hold
on the steering wheel hub. Kerry ground down a regular socket to make
something that would fit:
I liked the idea, so I made my own. I used a cut-off wheel on my grinder
and my dremel. It took a bit of trial and error, but what I found worked
best was to use the original points on the 6-point socket as centering marks
for the 6 tabs that needed to be left. So here’s my final socket.. it
worked great.
If anyone would like to borrow it, just drop me an email and i’ll send it to
you.
The next projects on my agenda are to finish up cleaning the wiring harness
and reassembling the new front suspension.
1500 @ 1960 or 1961
3/5/2005 08:15:14
Hi Josh,
very nice web you have. I get a lot of good ideas from it, please continue.
6/26/2005 02:39:37
Great website.I recently got a (I think a 1964 or 65) cabroilet.Thx for the ideas
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9/12/2005 02:43:40
Your modified socket is pretty cool. In the future, if you encounter another nut like this one (I forget what they're called), you can use a 'hook spanner.' This is basically a hinged hook with a handle that has a barb on the end of the hook. You put this barb into one of the notches on your nut and then turn the wrench and it does a great job. To tighten you flip the wrench over. It works in a similar manner to a strap wrench or an oil filter wrench, i.e. it is self-tightening (as a result of the hinge in the center of the half-circle hook). Anyways, hope this helps anyone who has this same problem in the future. Good luck with the FIAT (looks like Tony won't need to fix it any more).
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