New pump... results to follow...
 

Well... finally got a new pump for this old system...

Current pump... M60AUL

New pump... Little Giant 1-EA-42
Picture of mine

I will be installing this probably today and then post tempreture changes from MBM5 (not super accurate, but good enough for me to note differences of 2°C or more)

Here are new pictures of the current setup...

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mmz_tl_01...ion%20Mech.jpg
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mmz_tl_01...U%20Blocks.jpg
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mmz_tl_01.../Reservior.jpg

Here they are folks... pictures!!!! 8-D

Reservior I had was too small to hold the new pump... so, I had Tap Plastics cut me the ¼" Acrylite pieces... cost me all of $8 US.

All I had to do was drill my holes for the cord, inlet and outlet. Once that was done, I then glued the box together. That's large type bubble-wrap that the pump is sitting on. (Less noise from the vibration the pump makes)

Install was pretty simple. I will post temp differences after it burns in for 48 hours.

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mmz_tl_01...s%20pieces.jpg

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mmz_tl_01...nstruction.jpg

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mmz_tl_01...0Reservior.jpg

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mmz_tl_01...0Installed.jpg

I have that EXACT same Little Giant pump!! I love it. It is silent, bullet proof, and works very well for only being 170GPH. I ran it dry accidentally for over 7 days once and it still worked like new. It is about 2 years old now and ran 24/7 a good year of that and still running 24/7 as week speak. It does get hot and will add a few C to the water temp but submersing it should add a lot of life to it in the end and really shouldn't hurt things if your rad is good. I always ran mine inline. Looking damn good!

Thanks very much Jaydee... it did seem to be a bit hot at first... but is settling down to only about 1 or 2 C higher than before... so, if it's adding 3 or 4 the increase in flow is helping.

I am considering something much better than this little, flow killing transmission cooler. Maybe I'll add a second one and split the flow so that the drop in flow through the blocks is in parallel instead of series as it is now.

I ran the pump in the sink and it FLEW ... hooked it up to the system and the flow is at least HALVED! So it appears my blocks are big flow killers. :cry:

But, at this point the added heat is NOT making it worse... just keeping it the same. :rolleyes:

Good news is that if I split the flow between both blocks and either get another Trans cooler, stack them and merge the flow after or get a high flow rad and merge the flow into that, then it SHOULD work WAY better.

Updates to come... keep on coolin folks! :dome: