CVR electric water pump setup question

[Jason R]

Hello all, great forum I'm new here but I have been stalking it for a while. Anyways finally signed up and I was looking for some ideas on completing my CVR electric water pump install on my 64 Galaxie. I've got the pump installed with FE power adapter brackets (power steer and alt. version). I need to connect my heater core return (I believe) and there is no provision on the CVR pump for it. Is this hose supposed to go to the pump suction side? Anybody running this and using their heater still, how are you tapping in? There are two ports in the pump for the inlet connection from the radiator below one plugged and one to the radiator hose. Can I go in to one of those if I tap the plug connection somehow. Or should I try to tee into the lower hose? Thanks in advance for any help.

Jason

[jayb]

Jason, thanks for purchasing a set of those adapters.  Most people with electric pumps aren't using the heater, so I didn't make any provisions for that with my adapters.  However, I think there's an easy solution.  The heater core normally gets water from the pressure side of the water pump, and then returns it to the intake manifold just before the thermostat.  To get to the pressure side of the pump, you could drill a hole in one of the water pump adapters, tap it for a 3/8" pipe thread, and  then just put in a fitting for the heater hose.  This should give you the same routing as the factory heater core setup.

Good luck on the installation - Jay

[Jason R]

Thanks for clarifying Jay. Looking at the old pump I wasn't sure which side the connection was on.
Jason