[C38] [External] Re: Spinning water pump shaft and no spinning impeller

[Pierre Patino]

Hmm

Must be a manufacturing problem. The impeller is the one which came with
the brand new pump.
Sigh.....





On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 9:46 AM Charles Finn <charles at finn.ws> wrote:

> Wrong impeller!  I can see the key slot on your impeller shaft.  The
> impeller in you picture is not the one for this engine.
>
> Nice pictures!  It helps a lot.
>
> Chuck Finn
> Mighty Quinn  #114
> Great Lakes
> On 2/3/2022 6:26 PM, Pierre Patino wrote:
>
>
> Hmm
> The key is different for my impeller
>
> [image: PXL_20220204_002254598.jpg]
>
>
> I attached a short video too. Can anyone see it?
>
>
>
>
> [image: yip.gif]
>
> Hmmm
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 12:23 PM Bruce Liese <BLIESE at kumc.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Bruce S. Liese
>> s/v Freudian Sloop III
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Listserve <listserve-bounces at catalina38.org> on behalf of Max
>> soto <maxsoto at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 3, 2022 2:18 PM
>> *To:* Catalina 38 Listserve <listserve at catalina38.org>
>> *Subject:* [External] Re: [C38] Spinning water pump shaft and no
>> spinning impeller
>>
>> Hi Pierre, sounds to me like it was just a bad impeller… That might also
>> happens if the pump is dry…
>> Years ago I replaced my impeller just for maintenance, and half an hour
>> later noticed some white smoke on the exhaust and no water was coming out.
>> Checked the impeller and there wasn’t a single blade attached. Was totally
>> destroyed. So… it happens 🤷🏻‍♂️
>> Regards,
>> Max Soto A.
>> +506-8312-1367
>> Alajuela, Costa Rica
>>
>> > On Feb 3, 2022, at 12:12, Pierre Patino <pierre.patino at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi All
>> >
>> > Five months ago I replaced the raw water pump and when I turned on the
>> engine after a couple of months of inactivity I noticed that no water was
>> coming out of the exhaust port.
>> > I concluded that the new impeller was not spinning.
>> > I opened up the pump cover and saw that the shaft was indeed spinning
>> but not the impeller.
>> >
>> > I replaced the impeller with an older one that I had saved from a
>> previous maintenance and this worked.
>> >
>> > Barring a manufacturing defect on the impeller's central keyed ring,
>> what else could be wrong? The pump shaft looks OK (visually).
>> >
>> > The impellers are not cheap for some reason.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your suggestions.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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