Re: Water pump pulley
Post by charlieindelaware on Nov 5, 2006, 7:08pm

I had this same problem. I used a flange off of a Ford small block water pump. Had it pressed on to the new water pump, and used the pulley off of the Ford. I had some belt alignment problems because I have a 24 volt alt. instead of a generator. It used the back groove in the pulley. The Ford pulley would not go back far enough on the pump because of interferance with the pump body. I lined up the flange and pulley with the 2nd groove in the crank pulley and fabbed a new bracket to move the alt. out to line up with the 2nd groove. THe only problems I can see, is the Ford pulley is a bit larger than the factory one, which will give you lower coolant speed. I am not done yet so I can not say this will work perfect. But it beats a $100.00 core charge. (Memphis Equipment) Hope this will help you.