You can modify the water pump yourself. Press the pulley mount to where needed, install 292 Ford pulley, cut off excess shaft.
The 216 pulley will not work for this. The diameter is too small. There are others that will. The diameter needs to be close to the same as the 235 pulley and the right height to give you clearance.
This is the way it was done before vendors started gouging people for the short shaft water pump.
That being said, if I had it to do today I'd go with the adapter. I went with the short shaft/ford pulley and as a daily driver only vehicle the last 16 years never over heated. Like Cletis, now that this adapter plate has it all sorted out I would consider the change.
~ Cosmo
1949 Chevy Half Ton
Rocinante, like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
"...my good horse Rocinante, mine eternal and inseparable companion in all my journeys and courses." ...Don Quixote, Cervantes
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."...Yogi Berra
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." ...Eric Hoffer
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