Dick,
I remember some talk about there being two different water pumps for a SBC.
It had to do with whether the pump was V-belt driven of serpentine belt
driven.
If you have a SBC you might check the archives. What if in your setup,
the pump was
running backwards??
Note: I don't know a lot about SBC's.
Bryan
Doug Odom wrote:
> Dick, Warm the motor up to operating temp. Disconnect the water pump
> belt. Take the radiator cap off. Make sure it's full of water. Start
> the motor and load it as best you can and rev it up. The water should
> not move unless you are getting compression pressure into the cooling
> system. Sounds like that's what is happening to me. Doug Odom in big
> ditch
>
> richard spencer wrote:
>
>> hi, my name is dick spencer and i live in garland utah. i race a 80
>> monza in e/cbga and through the help of the list i t ran good( 190mph)
>> and handled good(thanks lsr385) for the advice on putting castor in it.
>> BUT it did some things i could use some opinions on. first run it blew
>> the radiator cap off. figuring i just hadn't tightened it i ran it
>> again, blew the radiator cap off again, so i safety wired it so it
>> couldn't come off , instead it blew the radiator hose that goes to the
>> water pump off. the cap is mounted on the engine since the engine is
>> higher than the radiator. i took the radiator cap off while the engine
>> was running and water gushed out when i rev the engine. i also checked
>> the head gaskets and the were ok. thanks in advance dick spencer
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