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Just wondering - what do you do to the pulleies after you install an electric water pump?
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Sell them on ebay... :p
If you mean the intake cam pulley. I would take it to a machine shop and have them lathe it off.
Safe way to make sure it's a clean even removal of material.
What did you guys do Brad/Buckshot???
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I think you can just leave the pulley on there, spinning freely. It seems light enough not to make any difference, and since it's not powering anything, no accessory loss.
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I'm not so sure that those electric water pumps are a good idea, considering where I have seen most of them mounted. Placing a pump in the lower radiator hose, IMHO, would provide absolutely no coolant circulation until the thermostat opens. Given that, I would think that you would observe localized overheating prior to the opening of the thermostat. That can't be good for an engine, especially an aluminum one.
In addition to that, I don't think you would get any cabin heat from the heater core until the thermostat opened either (in winter). That could really suck...
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Rubbish...they work fine and you ditch the t/stat..!!!
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Ah! That's what I wondered. So leaving it inside won't do any harm. Good! This will be my mod after the exhaust and springs/strut.
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Still waiting patiently on that catalog (including info on that electric water pump kit) terry... 
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Leaving in the t/stat WILL do harm as the temp setting of the pump can be adjusted ,the t/stat is fixed...It's ditched...
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Originally posted by DemonSVT:
Sell them on ebay... :p
If you mean the intake cam pulley. I would take it to a machine shop and have them lathe it off.
Safe way to make sure it's a clean even removal of material.
What did you guys do Brad/Buckshot??? You answered how I'm doing it with your response. Great minds think alike, eh?! Motor is going to the machine shop this week for balancing and crank knifing!
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