I cannot praise you enough, Mr. Dominguez! Your entire Flathead series have blessed me in my new journey: I recently began resoration on a 1949 Ford F2 Pickup, and I believe that messing with Flatheads has gotten me hooked.
I have rebuilt many engines and components in my seventy years, but I don’t know much about flathead fords, and I have always loved them. Now that I have one to bring back, I really respect your experience and attention to detail. Thank you for your help!
Thank you Aaron for making these videos. I always thought it would be difficult to rebuild these pumps. You made it look simple. I have a million pumps and was going to toss them. I'm thankful that you made this video. Now to rebuild some pumps
Aaron thank you for posting this video. I was stressing on how to rebuild my 1950 Merc's water pumps. There is a lot of good info in this video I would have over looked (measurements, wood cutouts, etc.)
I find it easier to simply order new pumps from Bob Drake. I don’t have the room for the press, and by the time I bought the press, I could have bought the new pumps.
Hi Mark, I saved enough money rebuilding these pumps compared to buying new ones, it paid for the used press that I bought. Now I have the press to use on other things😀
Hi Aaron, I've been a mechanic/machinist for many years and your video answered some questions I had about rebuilding my 8ba pumps. You did a great job using what tools you have on hand. May I make one suggestion on the last procedure of your rebuild. My suggestion would be to press the impeller on by placing the pulley in the down position on the press thus having the impeller up and easily accessible to your feeler gauges. My thoughts too would be to press on the impeller with a socket closer to the center of the impeller taking away any flex.Thanks again for a very helpful video.
@@aarondominguez4533 Hi again Aaron, I had another thought after posting. Could the snap ring in the Carpenter kit be to replace the one in the bottom of the bearing bore for the bearing to seat against? I didn't like the looks of it being used on the pulley end of the bearing bore either. Having a kit with no instructions is the pits. Yours is the only one on the 8BA pump rebuild with that very important .421 .429 dimension for seating the seal.That's what makes videos like yours so helpful. My pumps are going on a 53 8BA in my 42 ton and a half boom truck. One leaks so I'm rebuilding two cores I have.Thanks again.
A sealed bearing can still be infiltrated by sand dust dirt ext the slinger as you call it keeps contaminants out of the bearings hence a longer service life!
The rebuilding job is basically OK, hust 2 things to improve to my advice, the first one is to use a light sealant as Permatex on the shaft and the bore of the seal and the second one is to have a tool machined to install your seal, it wont cost you an arm and a leg and you'll be certain that the seal race will not wobble and cause a leak. If the shat diameter is 0.625" and the seal bore is 1.500", you can use the Detroit Diesel seal #23506248, it fits rught there and the quality is much better. this unit bearing is available through industrial bearing suppliers with external shall diameter of 1.181" ( 30mm) and 1.500", the shafts are available in 0.625" dia for the 1.181" shell and a combination of 0.625" and 0.750" shaft for the 1.500" shgell bearing, They can be supplied with universal non hardened shafts that can be easyly trimmed to lenght. The lenght of the shells is standard. very good tutorial.
What's your opinion...truck vs car style... from a chassis fab perspective seems to me the flat truck type mounts would be preferred. I have both available. Thoughts
Hey Aaron it looks like you have the harbor freight press. There is a guy on eBay that sells a 3D printed big red knob for them so it is easier to release the pressure without using the handle. Just make sure you know if it has the roll pin style or the “t” style. You have helped me along the way with getting my AV8 on the road! Thanks for alllllll your videos.
Hi Sawymer, thanks for asking. We moved to a farm a year ago and I have been working full time again. My free time to build has been very limited. I’m doing well though, thanks.
