Great vid, Doing as you say about cutting the head off when stiff and pulling the pump off, thats where i am... Pumps off but the bokt is seized to the casing so seems impossible to pull casing off... Land rovers hey...😢
I usually wire brush or sand blast then fill the pits with an aluminium based body filler as it does not absorb water, sand it down and the rubber hose has a much better chance of sealing - never had a problem, but I would not do the filler trick on the gasket face - as there is a bit of movement
Same stuff, different temp ranges. Aluminium based for low temp applications (90% of Land Rover jobs) Copper for medium to high temp ( Exhaust clamps) Nickel for very high temp ( manifold fittings and turbos) I mainly use Aluminium and Nickel
I have to say I do not much like the idea of using sand paper to polish it up I think I would use emery cloth the idea of bits sand in your engine is not good even after cleaning there may still be one or two bits of sand left.
You're like a modern Marcus Aurelius, wise words that are transferable to other fields.
Great vid, Doing as you say about cutting the head off when stiff and pulling the pump off, thats where i am... Pumps off but the bokt is seized to the casing so seems impossible to pull casing off...
Land rovers hey...😢
One of those bugger bolts on mine snapped off.. but not at the beginning of the threads oddly enough.
or get a good used 2nd hand one.... nice work.
Good call!
Good tips as usual, especially TIGing a pitted surface.
Would you TIG weld a corroded surface of the water pump inlet?
I usually wire brush or sand blast then fill the pits with an aluminium based body filler as it does not absorb water, sand it down and the rubber hose has a much better chance of sealing - never had a problem, but I would not do the filler trick on the gasket face - as there is a bit of movement
What should I do as there is a bolt snapped in my block?
Thanks
Somewhere years back I saw I video of dissolving steel bolts stuck in an aluminium casting with alum?:)
Not heard of that
@@BritannicaRestorations I think it's used for pickling and it's also used for changing the colour of hydrangea flowers
Alum is also a dye fix - the monks used to mine it where I grew up - they got very rich it seems!
Hi lt god, is copper slip the same as your silver paste?
I use a lot of aluminium based
Mike is the thread guard better than say using copper slip?
Same stuff, different temp ranges.
Aluminium based for low temp applications (90% of Land Rover jobs) Copper for medium to high temp ( Exhaust clamps) Nickel for very high temp ( manifold fittings and turbos)
I mainly use Aluminium and Nickel
I won't say what the profile edge of that water pump looks like!!!!
If you were to machine the sealing face by, say, 1.5mm, would it not be simpler to just make a 1.5mm shim for the pulley?
Possible = but what if someone was working on it and missed it out = the Vee belts are pretty unforgiving
@@BritannicaRestorations they scream out loud
I have to say I do not much like the idea of using sand paper to polish it up I think I would use emery cloth the idea of bits sand in your engine is not good even after cleaning there may still be one or two bits of sand left.
The ultrasonic gets them nice and clean