electric water pump???

And now, for a short, true, somewhat funny story.

Back in my Navy days, I had a '64 426 Dodge. I tore the dash out and built a custom dash. Went "downtown" to get the usual, common, standard, S&W black face mechanical gauges, only the joint didn't HAVE a matching trio!!!! This guy talked me into some Custom Crap S&W had just come out with and they didn't even have a mechanical temp gauge in them either, but he talked me into an electric one, AND I SHOULD HAVE FREEKIN JUST LEFT

Anyhow, I get this all installed, and the gauge runs right down on the cold peg. Now I had pulled the heater out of the car, so "no help" there

Anyhow after a couple? of weeks suddenly one day!!! the gauge!!! started reading "normal!!!"

EXCEPT THEN I noticed that it pinged "sometimes" and puked water when parked.

LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNnnnnnnggggggg...............story short..................

I finally ended up pulling the rad, the pump, to inspect things. Everything looked "fine."

Until I tripped on the pump housing, and it "jingled!!!!" The pump had a stamped steel impeller and had rusted right off the shaft. That engine was running only on convection cooling!!!!

Amazingly, it didn't do "all that bad" except in slow traffic.