water pump kit

[reastman]

Any of you have a source for a 348 water pump rebuild kit? Am getting a small leak from lower weep hole.
Thanks,
Dick Eastman

 

[Gofish]

Show Cars, of course. Last one I bought was about $65.

John

 

[reastman]

Thank you. They are $85 now. I did not realize show cars is the old Chuck Scharff enterprises. in New Ulm Mn

 

[WINTERTEXAN]

Sorry reastman, Show Cars was around long before Chuck Scharf.
He dabbled in 348 and 409 parts, happened to be in the same town, New Ulm.
After he had a heart attack and drowned in his hot tub we paid the telephone company to forward his number to my direct line.
Bruce

 

[reastman]

Thanks, I stand corrected. I built this engine in '95, so I assumed there was only one W engine parts source in New Ulm. I still have his 1995 1/2 catalog, with a personal note hand-written inside.

 

[WINTERTEXAN]

I have been with show Cars since 1988. Chuck was a character, We were Competitors but not unfriendly competitors.
We offered him a job with us a couple of times, but he wanted to stay independent.
Having 2 W block suppliers in a town of only 14,000 is really unusual.
We were saddened to see him pass the way he did.

 

[Brian64SS]

The water pump seal is the same as a small block's. It's possible to just order and replace the seal and reuse everything else if the bearing is o.k.. I don't like to use a new impeller from a kit anyway that wasn't made to match the housing.