water pump and brakes questions

[dave_s1987]

Hey guys just had a couple of random questions for you. First question is in regard to my weiand water pump. There is a threaded hole in the top of it to where i think a heater hose would normally plug into. Wehn i did my motor swap I also did the ac/heat delete so I don't have anything to put there now. Do I just buy a plug from somewhere for this and just plug it off? if so what is the size? I already ordered a plug that turned out to be too big lol

Second question is in regard to my rear brakes. I put a different rear end on my car when I swapped the motor out and haven't put the drum brakes on it yet. I am going to have to towed to the exhaust shop in a couple days and probably wont have time to get the brakes done before hand. I put the drums and wheels back on without shoes anything else and I noticed that both the drums make a bad sound like they are rubbing on the back plate or something. If I don't have time to figure it before it goes in can I just put the wheel straight on without the drums and have it towed a few km to the exhaust shop? or do the drums have to be on before I can tow it? I know that mound sound like a stupid question but I would rather be safe than sorry

 

[565bbchevy]

Typically the water pump plugs are 1/2" NPT.

 

[dave_s1987]

Typically the water pump plugs are 1/2" NPT.

Thanks for the help. I'll grab on that size tomorrow and see if it does the trick

 

[Texas82GP]

You should be ok putting the wheels right on the axle flanges as long as there are enough threads on the studs and you either use open faced lugnuts or your lugnuts have enough room in them that they will seat on the wheels and actually tighten up without bottoming out. The drums should be fine without shoes. I wonder what is rubbing????

 

[dave_s1987]

You should be ok putting the wheels right on the axle flanges as long as there are enough threads on the studs and you either use open faced lugnuts or your lugnuts have enough room in them that they will seat on the wheels and actually tighten up without bottoming out. The drums should be fine without shoes. I wonder what is rubbing????

thanks for the info!

I'm hoping I have time to work on it either tomorrow or Tuesday to see what the issue is there because it goes in Wednesday morning. I wish I noticed last week so I had more time to figure it out lol I had a pretty rough time lugging the rear end around around so maybe the backing plates or something go banged up along the way and needs some adjusting. I'm hoping its that simple at least..

 

[pontiacgp]

with no shoes if someone steps om the brakes the pistons in the wheels cylinders will pop out. Also put a note on the steering wheel that the car has no brakes or parking brake. Why not change the date your car gets towed so you can finish the brake job.

 

[dave_s1987]

with no shoes if someone steps om the brakes the pistons in the wheels cylinders will pop out. Also put a note on the steering wheel that the car has no brakes or parking brake. Why not change the date your car gets towed so you can finish the brake job.

It really just boils down to a timing issue for me and I feel like if I make yet another delay then I'll never have this motor broken in by the time I put it away for winter lol

My girlfriend thinks I should just get the shop to do my brakes while they're putting my dual exhaust on and she said she would even pay for it.. shes getting tired of watching me work on it lol Ive done all the work myself up until this point so I'm pretty hesitant to let someone do something I can probably learn to do myself pretty easily but time isn't really on my side anymore unfortunately..

I will definitely make note that it has no e-brake before its towed. I also haven't installed my new flex line to attach the rear brakes to the system yet so as of now i think the worst that could happen is it might squirt out fluid if someone pushed down on it. I'll to mention that in the note as well.

Thanks a lot for all the advise