Early add-on water pump for series MM

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Squeezebox
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Early add-on water pump for series MM

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Via the ads in Minor Matters I've managed to obtain an early external water pump of the type that clamps to the dynamo and is operate by a wheel that sits on top of the fan belt. The name "Heath Robinson" springs to mind, but I'd like to rig it up on my MM which despite being a late one has an earlier motor fitted with no water pump - so there's nothing to run the heater which still lurks cold and quiet inside the car. Meanwhile I get cold and the windows mist up in the winter.

Accepting that this pump is not going to contribute much to global warming, can anyone advise/post a photo or diagram of how it would have originally been plumbed up? The car as it is does not have a tap or blanking plug on the head, incidentally. I have an engineering background and access to machine tools so feel free to get technical!

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Mike
Mike Gott. 1968 4-door saloon, Ariel and Velocette motorcycles - and a 5 ton Ruston and Hornsby narrow gauge railway loco........
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I have the full instalation instuctions and diagrams. Send me your email address and details of your car and I will see what I can do about forwarding them to you.
By the way this topic should be on the Series MM Register noticeboard
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Post by Squeezebox »

Brilliant. Thank you Mike, apologies for putting the query in the wrong bit, I'm new to the messageboard and I'm still finding my way around the club site as a whole. I'll send you a PM.

Mike
Mike Gott. 1968 4-door saloon, Ariel and Velocette motorcycles - and a 5 ton Ruston and Hornsby narrow gauge railway loco........
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