Electric water pump? May as well take some of the load off the crank.

 

Gona pass on the electric WP. I'd have no way to run my belt for alt., PS, AC. This is a street car. Unless I'd go with the Meziere electric with the built in idler! But for $552.99 I'll pass on that also!

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That blows man.

I've actually experienced something similar in my old White '69. What happened to mine was the weep hole on the pump got clogged up, so it never dripped, and then the bearing let go in the water pump, which let the shaft come forward and the fan went through the radiator.

That's the weird part, I can grab the broken shaft on the old WP & turn it freely by hand!

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I've got the new setup mounted, just got to do some finish wiring for the fan controller. Looks like I'll have to drill & tap a spot for the fan sending unit. It needs to be in the coolant.

 

How old was the water pump?

 

Maybe a year and a half! Maybe 500 miles!!!! New from NAPA!

 

That blows man.

I've actually experienced something similar in my old White '69. What happened to mine was the weep hole on the pump got clogged up, so it never dripped, and then the bearing let go in the water pump, which let the shaft come forward and the fan went through the radiator.

 

Holy **** catastrophic failure! lol That sucks man, I hate how china makes everything now a days.
At least you went with an electric fan setup!

 

Its hard to tell after the fact but I'd lean more towards your fan clutch or fan being warped and out of balance. Even a small amount would put a huge stress on the water pump shaft. Having a heavy rigid fixed blade metal fan makes any imbalance problem even worse. In a perfect world, you should replace those any time you replace a water pump.

 

I feel your pain man so far in the past 8 months I have replaced the rear trak-lok, fried the transmission, then the torque converter, the the oil pump driveshaft snapped a few weeks ago. Thank god I was saving for a new engine. I'm going to the track on Friday and I can't really think of anything else that could go wrong but I won't be suprized lol. Looks good bud don't get ur hopes up it will all work out!

 

I'm going to the track on Friday and I can't really think of anything else that could go wrong but I won't be suprized lol.

I can think of a lot of things, axles, ujoints, some water hose, torque boxes, harmonic balancer etc.. :baller:

 

That happened to me 2 weeks ago. It destroyed my new Griffen Radiator, Shroud, ac lines and clutch. Just sucks.

Hate it happened but glad its not just me.

 

I broke a water pump shaft on my 69 Charger and put my fan through my radiator. That was also a mess.

Jerry

 

What were you guys spinning these engines to? I've never heard of it happening (that means nothing btw, I'm novice)

 

I shift at 6200. Although this happened after my run on the return road(thankfully) I would have hated to spill coolant on the track!

 

Probably was damaged on your missed gear if I was to guess. What kind of radiator is that, a misheeemojo?

 

Yea, some cheapo ebay radiator, but it worked very well, never got above 1/4 the way up the gauge, even in traffic.

 

Sucky, yea never seen that one before

 

I didn't see what brand of radiator you put this time. 2 or 3 row? What temp thermostat are you running? Just getting some gnaw ledge from the car gurus.

 

The new rad is a 3 row Champion bought off of ebay. It was $208 to the door & looks like pretty decent quality. Running a 180 t-stat. Never had a cooling issue before at all.

I wanted a Ford Racing aluminum radiator(have used several in the past), but it has been discontinued!! I think I bought the last 2 from American Muscle about a year ago.