This may be the cause of your cooling problems. There are several different
timing covers and some are thicker and have a deeper recess to take a pump
which has the impeller protruding from the pump. The other has a smaller
recess for a pump which has the impeller inside the pump housing. You may
have an enclosed impeller AND a deep timing cover. If you do keep the deep
timing cover and get a good new aluminium w/pump with a closed impeller
(they flow better.)
cheers, derek
Derek White
37/2 Buller's Lane
Colombo 7
Sri Lanka
Tel: 94 1 581175
Cell: 94 777 475955
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 2:52 PM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: water pump snout
Hi Guys,
Still trying to get my buddy's fan back away from his radiator. Pulled
the radiator (to rod it out anyway) and on removing the fan and pulley,
found
that the hub was slap up against the w.p. snout, no room to move (press) it
back. So, for curiosity, we measured the length from the pump mounting
surface to the end of the snout on both this pump and another in a box in
the
garage. 1/4 inch difference, but both are definitely 289 pumps.
How many kinds of pumps were made for the 289 and is there variance in
the
snout length. I don't see how we can get the fan back without changing the
dimensions of the pump or shoving the engine back in the passenger
compartment.
Chris Hill
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