Last month I broke the front of the pump shoe off and here is what the fix looks like as of last week. You can't really tell from the picture but on the leading edge of the water weld there is a rolled metal pump shoe insert that I posted a few pages back. The water weld filled the hole that was an inch deep infront of the plastic shoe.
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I posted two weeks ago about how I sucked up a huge rock on the Licking River. When I pulled the prop out of the pump, I was missing chunks of metal from the vains and one was bent. I had IPS fix the pump for me and knife edge the leading edge of the vains. Here is what is the vains look like on the pump after they were fixed and knife edged.
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The wear ring after the rocked passed through it.
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Here is a picture of the back of the pump shoe with the pump, impeller, wedge, nozzle and bucket removed.
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