At the moment, I do not see how to remove the "snap ring". It appears to be a press on and there is no way to get under it with a gear separator that I can see?
It seems apparent that it was never intended to be disassembled?
It does appear engineering wise, that if the shaft is shorter, then it likely is not necessary to need this length of this long bearing assembly to support the shafts axial loading?.
This is where I came to the conclusion that the "technology" being currently used on EXISTING short nose water pumps is the way to go. The wheel does not need to be reinvented. It still can only be round, no matter how abstract of a thinker you are?
Therefore, THE SOLUTION IS to use an existing short nose pump on a Cleveland so I repeat my question, AGAIN, can the existing short 351w pump be adapted to the Cleveland very simply?
I'd prefer to seek out the existing knowledge base on this subject rather then NEEDLESSLY repeat the same course of exploration. For that, it is just letting this play out to DISCOVER something that already exists, but not in the avenues known to me (as of yet) ?
That is where I am ATTEMPTING to look, so far, unsuccessfully while ATTEMPTING to not interfere with Marlin's thread. Too late for that I guess? OOPS!
He can't get me with a stun gun. I'm too far away.
Here are some pictures of my 351c water pump housings. Maybe that will keep all of you off of the subject and totally distracted?
It is pretty. I guess I'm going to mess it up soon?
