Everything old is new again

So off came the defective new water pump and the old pump was tidied up before being reinstated...




And new gaskets made up...



All back together (I am getting pretty good at this now), coolant in, test drive. All good.

Groan!

Test drive, taking the kids to school in the morning.

Overtemp light on with low coolant. Topped up the coolant as the system rid itself of all air bubbles. All good, except I noticed a leak at the heater spigot going into the water pump. Trying to tighten it yielded (literally) this...



The casting around the spigot just crumbled... a bad casting in the brand new water pump. Great!

Looks like the old pump goes back on and I see if I can get my $'s back from Rare Spares <sigh>.

Bottom Radiator Hose

Sourced one from Chevparts in Yennora on 08/02/2012...




14/02/2012
After a bit of shortening I managed to make it fit and the coolant went back in.

As the coolant went in, the blanking plug at the top of the pump leaked, so I had a to figure out a way to tighten it.




16/02/2012
Had a chat to fitters at work. They suggested using a 9/16" bolt/lock nut arrangement as a make-shift hex drive. Brilliant!

Tightened the water pump blanking plug with the suggested make-shift hex drive... all good!

J

Carby Rebuild

Last year I sourced a rebuild kit for the Rochester 4GC carburettor from the states and now it was time to strip the carby and put the kit through it.

Joe came up and we set to work... well... Joe set to work ;-)






All parts were soaked in thinners and blown-out with compressed air.

Dimension settings were listed in the kit.

By the end of the day, the carb was back together, sans choke linkage.

While JtC rebuilt the carb, I pulled off the water pump and replaced it with a new one sourced from Rare Spares. The bottom radiator hose was severely perished, so a new one will need to be sourced before the coolant can go back in.

Once off, the old pump had it's cover removed to reveal.... perfect! The impeller looked brand new and there was no slop in the shaft! Obviously the pump was not the reason for overheating.

So the new pump stayed on and the old pump stored away as a spare.