Water Pump at 156k miles

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Robert Holt said: ↑

... At least one of my earliest cars (52 Packard?) had one, and it was necessary as that car had a DC generator that barely supplied enough amps at higher rpms, so at idle the amp gauge would actually show a slight discharge. Since the Generator commutator brushes were always wearing down, you had to use that amp gauge to detect the lack of charging at higher rpms ...
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I don't recall the generators on my parents' cars being troublesome. They needed oiling occasionally. Ammeters largely vanished by the mid-50s.

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