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  Well.....you beat me for the engine.  The third
'pumper' 43 I've seen on ebay since I bought mine
9/14/20.  It had a blown heater but the boiler bushings
were all good.  I replaced the heater with my first
cartridge heater install, 400 watts, so it ran well
and looked pretty good, but still no working pump.

  I've run it a bunch over the years but the pump
was still jammed.  It would not go up/down and the top
knob/shaft just spinned, even with the top knob and
fitting removed.  Thankfully, the knob has a metal
insert so that is good.  The ball-bearing (dirty)
and spring fell out as I removed the pump so that
was good.  The bottom tube is clear up to the valve
body, another plus.  So, the whole pump body is
soaking in CLR.  I suppose that the jam is above
the check valve - I hope the CLR works.  Should I
be seeing bubbles come up?

Thanks for the pix, they were an inspiration,
Wayne