Water pump

[Frank D.]

Re: Water pump

Easily $500 - I paid that 6 years ago for a Bill Mock restored 609...

[Bill M.]

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Dam thanks for the good news.

[Joe L.]

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Dam thanks for the good news.

Bill------.

If this is what you're referring to, it's the '609' casting that's expensive. The '608' is much easier to find and much less expensive.

[Mike E.]

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Bill------.

If this is what you're referring to, it's the '609' casting that's expensive. The '608' is much easier to find and much less expensive.

You’re right. absolutely no comparison in rarity/price.

[Timothy B.]

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You’re right. absolutely no comparison in rarity/price.

But the lesson was the same.... :-)

[Richard M.]

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Ugh! I remember that - was sorta fun though running around rural Florida after dark in your late model Corvette, raiding your friend's incredible stash of C2 goodies for the right pump!

I'll never forget that night.

Crazy thing is, if you recall, I bought a rebuilt 608 from my vendor, and THAT failed too! I ran the car up the road, came back, and it was making noises, leaking, and the doggone bearing had about 1/4" of fan tip play in it.

I gave up on vendor rebuilt pumps. I do them myself. Getting burned is ugly.

Snapped a 3782609 pump the same way about 15 years ago. That's about a $500 mistake today. Pre-You Tube.

So, when I restored a 61 fuelie, I decided to go for the fine new reproduction 609. I now have it on the wall as garage art.....

Long post all about it here....
https://www.forums.ncrs.org/showthre...AK&mode=hybrid

Rich

[Bill M.]

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Rick pretty sure I remember reading about your adventure leaking right through the body. Makes a good 50 yard target.

[Domenic T.]

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Just a tid bit, but when I did my pump using their measurments for the pulley flange, I found it to be off a bit over 1/16 of an inch and had to align it to get the belts really good.

Dom

[Joe L.]

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Just a tid bit, but when I did my pump using their measurments for the pulley flange, I found it to be off a bit over 1/16 of an inch and had to align it to get the belts really good.

Dom

Dom------

There were two slightly different hub spacings for small block water pumps used in part of the C2 era. If rebuilding a pump, the best thing to do is to measure the hub spacing of the pump being removed and set the hub spacing of the rebuilt pump to the same.

[Domenic T.]

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Joe, that's good advice. I did what you suggested , belts looked good before, but I used a straight edge to find the error.

Dom