Water pump Conversion RH to LH
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Water pump Conversion RH to LH
As I bought a non standard ally radiator I decided to change my water pump to a LH inlet pump to facilitate a shorter bottom hose. I fitted the pump and found two issues. The main one being is that the water pump pulley doesn’t align with the crankshaft pulley which is a three hole pulley. Also there doesn’t seem to be a bottom mount for the alternator. My Car is a 68 J code coupe.
Can anyone Help with this issue?
Cheers
Can anyone Help with this issue?
Cheers
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Steve, what brand of pump are you using? I've done this many times and can't remember these issues..
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Re: Water pump Conversion RH to LH
I also have a 24 inch aluminum radiator with the bottom outlet on the left side, bought a GMB water pump and it was 7-8mm longer than the original one, throwing off my crank pulley. Sent it back and now have two bottom hoses with a joiner and my original pump.
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Nuts its a GMB pump the housing is taller when the pump is layed on its back
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I'll use a rh inlet pump if i cant find a viable solution
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So Unilec what did you use to join your bottom two radiator hoses and wher would source one from?
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Same sized (inner diameter) copper pipe with a rib rolled in each end.
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Re: Water pump Conversion RH to LH
SteveJ wrote:So Unilec what did you use to join your bottom two radiator hoses and wher would source one from?
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So i went into the back of my local repco with a template made up of a steel pipe and a hose and just found two that may fit. I remember one was a Gates 05-0765 and cannot remember the other, I will look into it in the next couple of days and if you need a photo, I can do that too. I bought a joiner on ebay, similar to this one.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Alloy-Hose- ... ctupt=true
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So can Copper pipe be sourced from a pluming supplier like Reeces?ozbilt wrote:Same sized (inner diameter) copper pipe with a rib rolled in each end.
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Thanks for that i never thought about EBayunilec5544 wrote:SteveJ wrote:So Unilec what did you use to join your bottom two radiator hoses and wher would source one from?
Cheers
So i went into the back of my local repco with a template made up of a steel pipe and a hose and just found two that may fit. I remember one was a Gates 05-0765 and cannot remember the other, I will look into it in the next couple of days and if you need a photo, I can do that too. I bought a joiner on ebay, similar to this one.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Alloy-Hose-Joiners-100mm-
Metal-Connector-Swaged-Beaded-Silicone-Pipe-
38mm/264732485223hash=item3da3492667:g:n40AAOSwZ15d1p3z&frcectupt=true
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I made a pipe for mine:
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Re: Water pump Conversion RH to LH
SteveJ, Unfortunately I am crap at keeping notes, but I know it was from a ford fairlane V8, so feel that it was also gates, gates 05-0052. The 05-0765 is the top hose from the pump, I do remember I had to trim a bit off, but not hard.