Mystery water pump
 

Greetings, I finally pulled the water pump on my '29 engine and am stumped. Nothing looks like any manuals or parts catalogue. There is no packing nut, I cut the shaft to get it out, it appears the impeller is spring loaded against the housing..both sides of shaft are bushings, no bearings. What the heck is this?

Re: Mystery water pump
 

I've have a similar pump on my deluxe delivery It's filled with waterproof grease and it's been running perfectly for at least 50,000 miles. I add a little bit of waterproof grease about every 2000 miles To bad Ford didn't make them all like that.

Re: Mystery water pump
 

looked ok, but leaked. So I was going to rebuild it, then realized it did not seem to look like anything I was seeing ...my block is marinating in Evaporust, and as you can see, the pump was really bad.

Re: Mystery water pump
 

Here is another link,

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=225398