remote block heater pump Insight G1

[highwater]

Got the bracket cut out of the aluminum cover. One wider, one narrower, don't know which one yet

This will get the remote pump out from under the overhanging block.

Now to get the in/out ports in the pump body.

Randall

[highwater]

Playing with the model to see about trimming some weight.
Makes it kinda ugly.

Randall

[highwater]

Hey moderators,
Can the title of the thread be changed to include Insight Gen 1.
Like the heading of the first post. I changed that.
Randall

Thanks for doing this Mods

[highwater]

Got the ports drilled and tapped.
Flipped the pump body around in the mill vise a time or three, and trimmed it up a bit.
Yeppp; makes it ugly.

Randall

[NorthwestIL]

Hi Highwater. I could not get into you pictures you posted last year about working with coolant problems, I still cannot open any of your pictures are the on Photo Bucket or a web page?
Can you show your pictures again! I have tried several times on different PCs and still no luck. I just can’t open them up. My Insight continually blows cols and then later warm/hot air. So, I took it in to a NAPA mechanics garage. He put it up and the rack and searched with a flashlight. It would not leak and we spent an hour adding 10 pounds of pressure. Still- no leaks- then we started and ran the engine for 15 minutes and still no leaks.
Then I drove 15 miles home and my car was howling just spitting antifreeze out all over. It was blowing cold and then hot air. The dash heat light in the Insight showed normal temperature.
Please talk about saving our heating/ coolant problems Thanks!

[highwater]

Not sure what to tell you on viewing the pics.
Only place they reside is here in the gallery.

If you are on network PC's, the administrator may have some things blocked?

Randall

[highwater]

OK, about the pics, I could see the last one posted in thread #14, but when I returned to the top to review the thread, I could not see any of the pics.
Checked some other of my threads and could not see some of the earlier pics that I had posted. Tried many things. Finally edited the post and checked the links to the pics. Seems the earlier pics address' have changed. What's up with that moderators.

I have edited the posts in this thread and changed the link to the pics.

Had to add "4009-" after the "/members/" and before the "highwater"

I fixed all the pics in this thread.

????????

Randall

[highwater]

Got it together enough to test for function.
Not enough hands to take pics and test at the same time.
Cold tap water.
Put 36 ounces of water in a container, to start.
Set microwave timer for 30 sec.
Measure 12oz. water left in the container after 30 sec.
Voltage of battery pack 13.73 before and after.

48oz per minute@13.5v ..... roughly.

That'll work.

Yea, that's pretty nasty tubing. All I had in that size.

Randall

[Cobb]

Ok, lets see if I am understanding this correctly. You are making a remote or secondary, battery operated water pump to move coolant while the engine isnt moving? Right?

Ok, why are you microwaving the water for 30 seconds before you put it in the system? :confusing: Are you going to add a tank with heater kind of like a prius cooling/preheating system system?


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[highwater]

Originally Posted by Cobb

Ok, lets see if I am understanding this correctly. You are making a remote or secondary, battery operated water pump to move coolant while the engine isnt moving? Right?

Ok, why are you microwaving the water for 30 seconds before you put it in the system? :confusing: Are you going to add a tank with heater kind of like a prius cooling/preheating system system?


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With the exception of your microwave question, the answer to the rest of your concerns lay in the history of the thread.
I used the TIMER on the microwave, not the magnetron.

Randall