Looking for method to thread water pump heater hose

He said that at the begining. Did you read the begining?

 

Turn down the brass fitting till its a close fit, and braze it in place?

 

Sorry, didn't see you are talking aluminium fittings.

 

You mean you're going to take your ball & go home?
Wahhh. & after such a pertinent contribution.
DARN... Darn it to HECK !!
(BTW. I don't believe for a second you know how to do it).

 

so its ended without a result??? WTF!!??

 

I don't see anything "attitude" about my response. I merely elaborated on the complexity and that it didn't even address the intent of my post. As for no place on this forum... withholding knowledge to punish people seems pretty childish. I'm thinking that's the thing that has no place here.




To those waiting with baited breath...

I got the pump installed yesterday. It took me about 45 minutes to complete the swap thanks to some tight clearance between the pulley and electric fans, so I had to wrench the pulley off and on one micro turn at a time. I fired it up, checked for leaks, let it idle long enough for the thermostat to kick open, checked for leaks, drove it around the block, checked for leaks... checked for leaks some more... etc.

I've now put about 20 miles on it and all appears well. I am hesitant to call the 'all clear' given the issues I've had with this seemingly miniscule project. But... so far, so good.

Thanks very much to Dave Lewis, Rich Fox, jeepman, MIKE47, Louis Chevrolet, Earl's, Russell, the lady in the toll booth on the San Mateo Bridge, some long-haired guy at Vic Hubbard, some short-haired guy at Vic Hubbard, the show's producers, my business manager, my mother and father, and all the other people who made this project possible.

Pictures to follow when there's a gap in the monsoon season.

 

Before installing the new pump, I did some filing on the weld to smooth it out a little. Then I used a jitterbug sander with a coarse grit to give it a roughness similar to the rest of the pump.







and finally...





Other than the crack caused by my manipulating it, the bushings and seals looked like the pump had another few hundred thousand miles in it.

FIN​

 

That was a fun read...

 

Victory!

Huzzah!

 

Of course the crack and porous area is right on top......
You would not believe the amount of CRAP that flowed out of the weld there !
Glad to see it back together and on the road.
Order another pump and fitting, send em down here....If we do a spare NOW...you will never need it.. I would hate to see you stranded in the middle of nowhere..LOL
Dave

 

silver solder it

 

He has it all done now!

I missed this thread and only now read it. Isn't it amazing how something seemingly simple can snowball into a drawn out disaster!?!?
Looks like you have it beat now and it looks clean and tidy.

My approach would have been a little less tidy but more along the lines of what the factory might do...
I would have formed a proper size metal tube to join to the pump with a molded 90* hose and Hillbilly hose clamps.
(Most likely a factory Coolant transfer hardtube from some other vehicle could even be found at the scrapyard that would match up.)

I would run it along the block and fasten it to the block for durability, run back past the engine mount to the rear of the engine where a fitting of the correct size could be joined up by using a reducer and/or some soldering...and then the line to the intake could run up from the rear of the block.
Painted black or engine color it would look like it belonged there right from the factory.
The intake would then have one coolant line going to the front and one to the rear.

NOT saying you need to rip what you have apart because YOURS looks even neater than what I describe...
just stating how I would have done it at home, as an additional alternative to anyone else who might have the same issue.

Different strokes.....