Re: ’60s Johnson water pump – Freeze Damage

[beerman57]

I don’t think the open area would bother the water flow enough to do anything. With a good impeller you would still get plenty of water. If it was a racing motor?
Talking about possible freeze damage, My grandmother lived in G-ville, Fla. – 180 miles north of me in Venice. So we always went up for holidays, and I would give her classic Buick a look over. Every year, for some reason her radiator water would be nothing but rust, even though I flushed it and put in fresh anti-freeze every year. Sometimes it would be below freezing, I basically KNOW her "mechanic" was dumping my anti-freeze and filling it with straight water, hoping for a busted radiator or, even better for them, the block! I know, it’s Florida, but temps in the teens for days will break a block full of water, won’t it? And yes, it will get that cold in north Fla.