I've got a noisy one in my ‘50 right now, not leaking yet but it sounds like I got a Jimmy
4.71 blower under the hood.
I bought it new from Rock Auto 7 years and 10,000 miles ago for a little over $75. So I
went to Rock Auto's catalog to order a new one, no listing any more! Looked to JC,
Chev's of the 40's and a couple others and they are up around $120 now for a new pump.
Don’t want to put a used pump on cuz the few that I saw, even though they blasted them
and painted them a pretty color, the snouts were pretty badly putted from rust under the
paint.
Back when I was a teen working in the Chevy parts department we stocked the
bearing/seal assembles for them. In fact I replace a couple in my own cars. It’s a simple
matter of pressing them out and pressing the assembly back in. Problem now is only the
rebuilder have access to the bearing assemblies now.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
