Eccentric Renew for my 27 Hudson

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Hi again,



Well today, I pulled off the timing chain, took out the distributor and

managed to remove the auxillary water pump shaft and water pump. The

real fun came when I tried to remove the impeller off of the shaft. I

had to clean and then sand off some of the gunk built up on the shaft

and then had to take a torch and heat up the impeller before it would

budge and come off. (Yes, I took out the pin from the impeller

yesterday. Was that ever a chore.)



I removed the impeller today and I will remove the remainder of the

waterpump tomorrow. I am doing this because the eccentric plate has a

few chunks broken out.



I thought I would make up a new plate out of 1/4" steel (including the

proper cap screw holes and then weld it to the existing eccentric plate.



Questions:



1) Does anyone see a problem with welding a new 1/4" steel plate to the

existing eccentric plate? (As an example, would the extra 1/4"

thickness cause a problem...and or would making the plate out of steel

pose a future problem?)



2) I was told to use 3/16" Garlock on the water pump compression

fittings. Ebay had two different types of 3/16" Garlock, one is

Garlock 1298 and the other is 1200 PBI. Does anyone know which of the

two I should use? I am leaning towards Garlock 1298.



Thank you for your assistance.