Subject: Re: Anyone reviewed Tuff Stuff water pumps? by Durango_Boy on 2012/6/21 12:08:57
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WW7 wrote: Be careful with the high flow waterpumps..I bought a Edelbrock High flow pump for my 383 and now my temps are running 5 degrees hotter then with my stock pump..I had heard storys about water passing through a radiator to fast to cool properly, but now I see the storys can be true..I figured since I have a Dewitts radiator the Edelbrock pump would just make it better....WRONG...WW
The Tuff Stuff pump I am looking at is not a high flow pump. It's, near as I can tell, a standard flow replacement. I too know to avoid high flow pumps. However, I think there is something to be said for the weight savings. When I first built the engine I saw too many horror stories about aluminum pumps giving up and leaking way before their iron counter parts. For that reason I stuck with a tried and true iron pump.
Now, there is nothing wrong with it, and I have no problem re-using it. But since I had to take the engine apart I am using this as an opportunity to re-think a couple of decisions I made on the original build and one of them is inclusion of an aluminum pump.
