✅ SOLVED Old Brake Drum? Water Pump? No Idea!

[FreeBirdTim]

Found a couple of old auto parts in the woods today. Here's the first one. Is it a brake drum? Water pump? Guesses?

 

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[Ant]

It looks like a v-belt pulley to me:
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[trdking]

Yes now that I see the side I know that it is not volkswagon. I still think it is a brake drum with hub. Does it have any casting numbers?

 

[Doubter in MD]

Looks like VW brake drum is the winner!

 

[Doubter in MD]

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I wonder if it is part of a sump pump.

 

[cudamark]

It's a rear hub and brake drum assy. Doesn't look like anything I've seen on a car. More likely something industrial such as a tractor.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I am sticking with my original reply that it is from a tractor. Remember when farmers would take a wheel off their tractor and hook belts to the hub to drive tools like sawmills and the such?

 

[trdking]

Those were flat belts not v style belts? I have not seen a belt that would ride on this surface. Curious about the casting numbers?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Maybe the studs were for a mounted gear.Not a tire.

 

[cudamark]

Any numbers or logos?

 

[Doubter in MD]

I'm taking my brake drum pictures and going home!

It does seem too big in diameter to be a VW brake drum but it so closely resembles the pictures of the VW brake drums I posted it seems obvious to me it is a brake drum from something. And it also proves there were keyed brake drums.

 

[Tedyoh]

Two things that don't look right, to me anyway, to be an automotive drum, the axle diameter is too small and the lugs nut set up looks backwards?

 

[Doubter in MD]

If you look at this picture it is a little backwards.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

I don't see any numbers or stampings anywhere, but I'll try to clean it up better to see if there's any identifying marks on it.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

If you look at this picture it is a little backwards. View attachment 1143489

Did they have studs and nuts that looks bolted on where as the other has studs?

 

[Doubter in MD]

Did they have studs and nuts that looks bolted on where as the other has studs?

You're right. All of the VW examples I have posted use bolts. I just posted that picture to illustrate the bolt pattern.
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I am not sure it's a VW brake drum but the similarities in the pictures I have posted have me convinced it is some kind of brake drum.

 

[DCMatt]

I think its a part of a flywheel assembly from an older portable engine. Like a hit & miss or other type of gas engine from the first half of the 20th C.

But I can't prove it.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I think its a part of a flywheel assembly from an older portable engine. Like a hit & miss or other type of gas engine from the first half of the 20th C.

But I can't prove it.

That seems to kind of fit the bill.

 

[dieselram94]

What were the other parts found with it? Maybe electrolysis would reveal more markings on it...


Sent from a empty soda can!

 

[paulcart43778]

Old VW bug or van .