On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:37:08 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:


Something else is happening here as I've not had any problem with
getting our 2GM20's impeller off each of the last a dozen falls. I
grease the walls when I put it in in the Spring, so might get a little
on the shaft, but nothing intentional.

I do two things when I pull the impeller in the fall: I grease the
blades and the shaft with white/lithium grease and check the back
plate and shaft for scoring; and I fill up the little "grease cup" on
my old-school Oberdorfer water pump. Every ten hours or so, I give it
a tightening to get the blob of grease in contact with the shaft.

It's all part of my winterization routine.

R.