Our "New to Us" Winnie

[jon_d]

I think the standing since the return from the Wollongong trip may have started rust scale forming on the water pump shaft around the seal area

Most definitely. Just pump it with silicon. That's how you fixed the Ford Cargo.

[T1 Terry]

I think the standing since the return from the Wollongong trip may have started rust scale forming on the water pump shaft around the seal area

Most definitely. Just pump it with silicon. That's how you fixed the Ford Cargo.

I'd have to strip the front out to get the fan off to remove the water pump pulley to even find the pump drain hole The Ford Cargo was a much easier job to locate the drain holes and pump them full enough to slow the fountain, it was leaking bad enough for water to spout out of both the top and bottom drain hole I think it might have been why he sold the truck cheap, there were no water pumps to be had anywhere for a 680 cu in slant 6 Ford diesel. When we stripped it down, the only thing left of the seal was the brass housing the seal lived in, the rest was gone.
Jerry made me one using various farm water pump bearing assemblies and seal bits, machined and shortened each end of the shaft and bored the cast housing to hold the bearing ..... the combined bits of the seals were still not quite enough to make a press fit, so they got glued in place ..... still works fine and holds water after around 10 yrs .....

If the workshop and lathes, boring machines etc where still in operation, I'd probably attempt a similar repair for the Winnie, but finding another machinist with Jerry's skill level on a manual lathe and boring machine would probably be as hard as it has been to locate a replacement pump ... in hindsight, it probably would have been faster though ....

T1 Terry