Hose routing water pump help?

[Jayz28]

Putting a car together for a customer with unknown components and found a weird water pump. It is missing the tube that goes to lower port on the radiator on the driver side? Here's a pic.

I was putting the hoses on and noticed the difference from mine to this one.

Any ideas where this water pump came from? How do I route the coolant hoses now? Can I plug off the driver side radiator port?

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[shownomercy]

Its just the oil cooler line, if you block the lower rad port its fine. That is how my car is setup.

[Injuneer]

Useful guide to LT1 water pumps, courtesy of Shoebox:

http://shbox.com/1/lt1_water_pumps.jpg

[BALLSS]

OP

can't see the whole WP in your pic but it appears to be a B or Y body LT1 WP, not F body

BTW, the lower DS bolt for WP gets thread sealer....it goes into a water jacket

[Jayz28]

Useful guide to LT1 water pumps, courtesy of Shoebox:

http://shbox.com/1/lt1_water_pumps.jpg

Thank you. I stumbled upon this yesterday. Looks like I have a bbody water pump.

What hoses are not needed on a track car? Any idea?

[Jayz28]

OP

can't see the whole WP in your pic but it appears to be a B or Y body LT1 WP, not F body

BTW, the lower DS bolt for WP gets thread sealer....it goes into a water jacket

Good point. I didn't put the pump on. I bet they overlooked thread sealer.

I need to figure out what all I can plug up hose wise.

[Jayz28]

Its just the oil cooler line, if you block the lower rad port its fine. That is how my car is setup.

Awesome. Thank you!

[BALLSS]

if a B-body WP you can loop the 2 smaller hose pipes together as they are for heater. Not sure if you can "cap" them or if they need to circulate

the other two would be for upper/lower radiator hose

since you didn't put the pump on...can you see (from the top) that the coupler is on between WP & TC....it needs to be to make it work.

[Jayz28]

if a B-body WP you can loop the 2 smaller hose pipes together as they are for heater. Not sure if you can "cap" them or if they need to circulate

the other two would be for upper/lower radiator hose

since you didn't put the pump on...can you see (from the top) that the coupler is on between WP & TC....it needs to be to make it work.

Yes. I checked it first thing. People not use to working around lt1s, I don't trust.

I will loop a hose to the water pump then and cap off the radiator ports not in use. I purchased new hoses this morning.

Thanks for your help good sir.

[shownomercy]

Mine are capped, no issues AFAIK.

I got a rubber cap kit from my local auto part store and used em with hose clamps.