Bob,
The Driver's handbook of my BJ8 has a picture on page 44 and the text
"Remove the plug on the water pump housing and inject a small amount of
grease. Lubricate sparingly, otherwise grease will run past the bearings
onto the face of the carbon sealing ring and impair its efficiency."
The text next to the picture states "Water pump lubrication plug located
on the pump body."
It therefore looks like your List member was right.....
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432 under reconstruction
Bob Spidell wrote:
> Folks,
>
> A while back I wrote a message stating the that grease port on a
> Healey water pump
> was originally had a "flip up" cover. That was working from memory,
> but I replaced
> the original pump on my BJ8 over 15 years ago, and my memory might
> well be incorrect
> (many grease fittings do have a flip up cover). A List member has
> informed me his pump
> has a grub screw. A screw makes sense, since you can stuff some
> grease in the hole
> then when you replace the screw it will force the grease into the
> bearing.
>
> Anyway, does anyone else have an original or early replacement pump
> that has a
> grease port? If my "flip up cover" statement was incorrect I'd like
> to set the record
> straight.
>
>
> bs
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