Yes I am thinking of that to, I was just looking and i can get a plain short aluminum one for $50 bucks so I might just do that.
# 74-900 canton...crank pulley spacer kit ! Summit sells them for $14.95... Dave Just found speedways part # 910 15721.. .090 thick so you need 4 of them.. $3.99 each.
For an aluminum short water pump check this one 350283389339 E--y link. I've bought a lot of pieces for my rigs from Skip White and been happy with everything I got and the service is very good.
didn't read al the posts but i think gm made three (3)different short water pumps(had same problem with my stock car pulley alignment)
Yes it took 3 months, he works and has children and projects and so do I, no offense taken, just wanted to clarify. They don't make a lot of specialty parts for FE'S anymore. The pulleys were fine until I changed the balancer to a steel fluid filled balancer. I knew it was thicker but, I figured they off-set the mounting flange face, WRONG and couldn't give me no recommendations! SBC have a lot of different size components so, it might only take you 6 months,LOL.
you need the water pump pulley from a V8 generator, most of the new ones are made from the alt specs (so i've been told). the pulley back needs to almost touch the water pump casting. like said above put everything on and make sure it's the water pump that's off and not the crank pulley.
Hey thanks for all the help guys. I ended up taking my water pump to a machine shop and they pressed down the flange as far as it would go, then I had to use one lower pulley spacer that was .090" thick that I got from granny here on the forum (thanks I really appreciate the help!) and it lined up perfectly.
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