Info needed: Ford V8 water pump rebuild kits

[rob love]

Those are for the single pulley. They are the old style with the bronze bushing. That means you cannot tighten your belts like you would on a normal water pump or you will burn out those bushings. Personally, I would buy the new pumps before I ever installed one of those old type kits into an old pump.

[Tony Smith]

It may still be a worthwhile purchase for the components (if you like the price).

The impeller is cast iron and will also fit the cassette-type bearing used in the truck water pumps. Often these impellers are badly corroded and not suitable to re-use, or may be fractured when pulling them off the old bearing.

The Truck bearings are available separately, but kits are hard to come across. By using this kit with a separately purchased bearing, you can rebuild your original pump.

I try to buy any used truck water pumps I can find with good pulleys and impellers, because those bits are hard to find, but the bearings themselves are still a catalog item.

[rob love]

Those kits are still available from Mac's for $30 each. https://www.macsautoparts.com/early_...build-kit.html


A brand new pump with modern design is $64.99: https://www.macsautoparts.com/early_...build-kit.html


They also have kits for the later Flathead Ford 8BA engines which have the more modern style components. I wonder if there is any interchangeability with the 2 groove pulley pumps. https://www.macsautoparts.com/early_...build-kit.html

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Do you mean?

Originally Posted by rob love

Those kits are still available from Mac's for $30 each. https://www.macsautoparts.com/early_...build-kit.html

A brand new pump with modern design is $64.99: https://www.macsautoparts.com/early_...build-kit.html

https://www.macsautoparts.com/early_...and-95-hp.html ?

They also have kits for the later Flathead Ford 8BA engines which have the more modern style components. I wonder if there is any interchangeability with the 2 groove pulley pumps. https://www.macsautoparts.com/early_...build-kit.html

https://www.macsautoparts.com/ford_m...ad-239-v8.html ?

[rob love]

Yes....apparently I should not cut and paste until after my morning coffee.

[Lynn Eades]

We are confusing the bush pump and the bearing pump.
I thought this thread was on the bearing type pump (probably with double sheave pulley)