Waterpump?

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Originally Posted by stich626

looking at his pic of the water pump on his engine there are spacers between the pump and block (iirc moroso made these)
he can run the short pump and spacers but thats 2 extra gaskets and 2 more places to leak.. or a long and toss the spacers
look at his pic's and the part withing the black marker..
if he runs the short pump without the spacers nothings going to line up,

If there are indeed spacers there (hard to tell, looks funny to me??) they are NOT 1 3/8" thick (the difference in length between short and long water pumps).

OP, your alternator is on the driver side, as it should be with a short water pump. Later year trucks (73-up) used a long water pump, and the alternator was on the passenger side. The pulleys/brackets used for short and long water pumps are different. I do not know if there are "spacers" on your water pump now or if that is just a funny looking way it was cast?? If they are spacers, it looks to me like if they were removed the water pump would hit the timing cover.

Take the pump off and take it to Autozone with you for comparison as Cdowns said way back when. Take the bolts to Home Depot or any hardware store and match them up to new ones. Case closed. Done deal. End of story.