I have read, and searched here but couldnt find data, that you can replace the seals and bearings in an LT1 water Pump. Can you? Do you know where to get the parts needed?
I dont want an "Go electric Waterpump" statement, thats not what I am asking. Thanks in advance.

 

I dont know of any. when I put my electric pump on mine the impeller had to be pressed out, it was a PITA to do, just buy a new one there not that expensive from auto zone there just remans they sale.

 

I have never seen any rebuild parts for the w/p.

 

Cant you just take the core to murrays and get a new one? I guess i just dont understand why you would want to mess with that, ive done it on a boat once it was a P-I-T-A

 

I have a machine shop that can do it.
WHeres Murrays?

 

sorry i always forget murrays isnt a nationwide chain, if youve never heard of it there probably arent any around you. its basically an autozone with somewhat better service.

 

that can do it for you or you can do it. most shops charge 50-60 bucks an hour, heck thats almost the price of a reman pump. autozone gets 67 bucks for a reman pump + a 10 core. its not really worth rebuilding a pump for the aggravation, unless you have yours modified in some way that you need your housing get a reman.

now if you have soemthing like this done than you might look into it, but thats why people go electric so they dont have to rebuild pumps, why dont you want to go electric?

 

I am in Washington, Seattle area for another week and have a core in my hotel. I will be leaving back to Hawaii, and thought i would try to get parts or whatever. I can get an AC DELCO for 160ish from rockauto, but if it is a simple bearing and seal job, why not try it myself as I have rebuilt most crap on my Vette without doing it before.

 

Autozone wants a little more than that, as I just went to their site. 109 was there cheapest.
http://www.autozone.com/selectedZip,.../selectZip.htm

 

I autocross, and have a camber brace that goes right in front of the pump. I dont want to buy another bar that allows this.
Other wise I would have done a Meizer a while ago.

 

67.99 is what they have there reman valuecraft listed for here.

http://www.autozone.com/selectedZip,.../selectZip.htm

 

Didnt even see it. WHo the heck is valucraft? Okay, its by zip code. My zip code, 98314 shows it as 109.
When I hit your link it was 86 dollars excluding 10 dollar core.
Its 54 bucks in Florida.

 

value craft is just a place that remans parts, thats all they do there big here in PA a lot of auto stores carry there parts. for the most part I never had problems with them, I had used a valuecraft pump on my TA for a while with no problems then I went electric.

 

It stinks that they don't make water pumps so the bearing/impeller is easily removable/replaced. That's the ONLY moving part in a water pump; they should be much cheaper..

 

I've seen several of those cheap China reman waterpumps fail pretty quickly.

I'd stick with an AC Delco personally if I didn't already have an electric in mine.