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HELP!! water pump #1
tater salad Todd Smith charlotte NC, USA 1970 MG Midget 1971 MG Midget	Posted: April 06, 2012 07:35AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 266

so my water pump has been seeping 0n my 71 1275 motor, so I ordered parts so to fix,
ok so they sold me the water pump and also, oh this was from VB catalog SM.68
page 54 Item number#4 seal, water pump, so when I took my old water pump off I did not see this Item #4 anywhere, I'm thinking ??? I need to ask the experts,,,

PLEASE HELP, because I see nowhere this would even fit any where,

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Re: HELP!! water pump #2
AmishIndy Seth Jones Wheaton, IL, USA 1971 MG Midget MkIII "Guenevire" 2007 Mazda 3 "Porco Rosso"	Posted: April 06, 2012 07:56AM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 3,139

I'v enever replaced that before, I think its internal to the water pump and those can be a real pain to get apart. Your best bet is to get the pump (number 1) and the gasket (number 5) and just replace those parts. You can return #4

Seth Jones

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Re: HELP!! water pump #3
PeterC Peter Caldwell Madison Wisconsin, USA	Posted: April 06, 2012 09:10AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 2,191

.... and a 2" piece of 1/2" heater hose.....

Now's the time to do that.

Peter C

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Re: HELP!! water pump #4
AmishIndy Seth Jones Wheaton, IL, USA 1971 MG Midget MkIII "Guenevire" 2007 Mazda 3 "Porco Rosso"	Posted: April 06, 2012 09:15AM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 3,139

In reply to # 2032840 by PeterC .... and a 2" piece of 1/2" heater hose.....

Now's the time to do that.

Peter C

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Re: HELP!! water pump #5
smokey1971 Les Boardman St. Petersburg, FL, USA 1969 MG Midget	Posted: April 06, 2012 09:16PM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 146

X3 And don't bother with the hose sold by VB or Moss. Go down to your local autoparts store and get a short section of their best quality heater hose. The ones from VB and Moss have a bad habit of bursting when you're far from home and really late at night. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the rain!!!! angry smiley

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Re: HELP!! water pump #6
WayneW Wayne Witgenstein Nashville, Tennessee, USA	Posted: April 06, 2012 11:29PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,013

X4 A new pump is not much more than the price of the seal. It is a quick and easy replacement giving you more time behind the wheel instead of under the bonnet. Plus, you would probably need a hydraulic press to get into the old pump anyway. And for sure don't forget that bypass hose...

-Wayne

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Re: HELP!! water pump #7
tater salad Todd Smith charlotte NC, USA 1970 MG Midget 1971 MG Midget	Posted: April 07, 2012 06:23AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 266

wow, i just noticed today that when I post on my phone I dont see it on the forum, anyways its probably just me,
so I replaced the water pump yesturday, thanks Seth I'm going to return this internal seal,

I took apart the old water pump because I wanted to see what and how the part
#4 would go. the pump was very easy to take apart, since it was getting replaced i used a small hub puller 3 finger type and pulled the fan and pully hub off with that and then I flipped the pump right side up between my vise jaws and used a machinist hammer and drove the internals out.

after doing that I could not see anywhere item #4 would even go inside of the water pump, im dumb-founded over it
the funny thing to me is I called VB and asked for Tech support, she said they have NONE,
now I have bought from this company, diffrent type vehicle but same major company, for over 15 years and used thier tech support on the chevy truck side a few times

or maybe because of the economy being very tough, maybe they dropped tech support, I dont know

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Re: HELP!! water pump #8
AmishIndy Seth Jones Wheaton, IL, USA 1971 MG Midget MkIII "Guenevire" 2007 Mazda 3 "Porco Rosso"	Posted: April 07, 2012 03:26PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 3,139

could be that their truck division has tech support that their british sporty car division doesnt.

Seth Jones

1971 MG Midget

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Re: HELP!! water pump #9
tater salad Todd Smith charlotte NC, USA 1970 MG Midget 1971 MG Midget	Posted: April 08, 2012 06:43AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 266

update, ahh no more leaking of anti freeze, life is getting better

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Re: HELP!! water pump #10
AmishIndy Seth Jones Wheaton, IL, USA 1971 MG Midget MkIII "Guenevire" 2007 Mazda 3 "Porco Rosso"	Posted: April 08, 2012 06:47AM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 3,139

Excellent! I've replaced my water pump twice since 2000. It happens. Shure is nice to not have antifreeze spraying on your windsheild isn't it?

Seth Jones

1971 MG Midget

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Re: HELP!! water pump #11
tcasilio Deb & Tom Casilio Rochester, NY, USA 1973 MG Midget MkIII "Little Car"	Posted: April 09, 2012 05:33AM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 78

Make sure you tighten the alternator mounting ear screw last other wise it will crack. I replaced mine a couple of weeks ago and the ear cracked within 180 miles so I asked this old timer

who is a MG mechanic and he laughed and told me why !! I was so pissed I had to buy two and worse yet take the car apart again.

Hope this helps you.
Tom

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