The Studebaker Wagon Saga....follow it here

[fahrenschnell]

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Awesome Work....I like the picture where Tom is looking at your dad as he pulls the engine....He must have been thinking you guys are crazy....

Seth

[squirrel]

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boy, that looks like fun!

[Brian Lohnes]

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Motor's out...no one's dead. It's in my basement. I'm beat.

I'll just let the pictures tell the tale tonight and follow up tomorrow with the stunning commentary.

















Brian

[CTX-SLPR]

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I don't usually smash myself, instead I get cut on the coresupport and burned because I'm impatient with the metal I'm welding.

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fingers smashed between frame rails and exhaust manifolds is not a good thing....hell it down right hurts.....

[Brian Lohnes]

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Good advice for sure!

Brian

[squirrel]

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At the junkyard we pulled all the engines out with the fork lift. It had long forks on it, and we had a nice thick nylon strap with a loop at each end. Works great! but not as good for putting them back in.

Keep all your bodily parts out from under.....

[Brian Lohnes]

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Well this ought to be interesting.

Sunday the motor and trans are coming out. It's being removed with a 1948 8N tractor. We thought about the tripod and a chain fall, my father in law has a massive cherry picker, but we kept coming back to the tractor, mainly because we're idiots and think that it will be more fun.

The photos will be priceless, I promise that much.

Brian

[squirrel]

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The pump is similar to the early Caddy V8 and the industrial big block Mopars. More like the mopars, though, because you can take the pump out of the big housing. The industrial ones were different from the regular ones because they had those passages to the front of the cylinder heads.

[milner351]

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You are truly blessed to have a parts place like that so close.... wow, amazing.

Imagine the complexities of the casting process for that pump... industrial art for sure.

[Brian Lohnes]

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I know it's rebuildable because I have an NOS rebuild kit that I am picking up from the store tomorrow! Seems dumb to rebuild the water pump on a car in as tough shape as this one, but it's something I can do on my workbench in the basement in the evening when I get home from work, so that's how I justify it.

There's a parts business about 5 miles from me that my friend works at called "Then and Now Auto"...they specialize in NOS parts from 1909 on. It is amazing what they have on the shelf there. They are going to be my primary parts source for stuff that "needs" to be right...like this pump. It's an awesome place, but they get a mint on the parts....because where the hell else are you going to get them?

Brian

[DanStokes]

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Brian -
Is that pump rebuildable? I'd do bearings and seals just because I could, while yer at it. I haven't seen one of those in a LONG while - good memories!

Dan

[Brian Lohnes]

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Monsoon rains here today....motor coming out next weekend. Suck.

Brian

[Monster]

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... this is my first 'Stude experience. Maybe I'm a weirdo, but dig the photos.

Wow, way cool. Thanks for my first 'Stude water pump rebuild experience.

[TheSilverBuick]

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Definately a work of art! Keep up the pic's, still waiting to see the engine being moved to the basement. ;)