my homemade pump

[fiveohpatrol]

So I've seen some others make WVO transfer pumps out of an old small block chevy oil pump. While this looked pretty straightforward, I didn't want to be seen buying something for a Chevy at the parts store, nor did I want to mess around with all that JB weld.
Then I remembered I had an old stock small block FORD pump sitting on the shelf.


Here's the guts, probably not something to pump dirty oil with.


Then I just made a couple small flanges out of 1/4" aluminum and a couple 1/4" NPT fittings.


Then bolted them to the pump (with gaskets)

continued in the next post...

[fiveohpatrol]

The drive is just a 1/4" hex. I just chucked up a stock oilpump driveshaft in a 18V drill and went to town.



It emptied a cubie, at 45-50deg, in 45 seconds, so about 6gpm. Not bad for free, and it sure beats cranking the barrel pump for what feels like hours on end.
The drill is rated at 1600rpm no load speed, so I would guess it was pushing 1000rpm. I'm going to try to find a cheap (hopefully free) electric motor to direct drive it and see how much flow I can get out of this thing. And hell when I was telling a friend about this he said he has an old high-volume pump I can have too. Not sure how much different it is than a stock one, but it's worth a try. I love free stuff

I rigged this thing up in about 30 minutes, and I'm very happy with the performance on this cold oil. Not something that I would want to go pump 200 gallons with, but I'm sure 30-40 would be fine.

[lancaster,pa]

The drive is just a 1/4" hex. I just chucked up a stock oilpump driveshaft in a 18V drill and went to town.



It emptied a cubie, at 45-50deg, in 45 seconds, so about 6gpm. Not bad for free, and it sure beats cranking the barrel pump for what feels like hours on end.
The drill is rated at 1600rpm no load speed, so I would guess it was pushing 1000rpm. I'm going to try to find a cheap (hopefully free) electric motor to direct drive it and see how much flow I can get out of this thing. And hell when I was telling a friend about this he said he has an old high-volume pump I can have too. Not sure how much different it is than a stock one, but it's worth a try. I love free stuff

I rigged this thing up in about 30 minutes, and I'm very happy with the performance on this cold oil. Not something that I would want to go pump 200 gallons with, but I'm sure 30-40 would be fine.

Cool! Thanks for posting. - Patrick

[SwellMel]

Awesome, I love getting ideas like this, I picked up a power steering pump off a Volkswagen for $15 last summer, still haven't hooked it up yet.