Re: My water pump failed again, revisited.

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

Sounds like when you put the pulley on the water pump you moved the
shaft pushing the impeller back and unseating the seal.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "miltdanfoss" <dan.foss@xxxx> wrote:
> Thought I'd share my experience this weekend.
> 
> After rebuilding the engine because of a bad water pump, the darn 
> thing failed again on the first day I actually drove it anywhere 
> after the rebuild.
> 
> When I took the failed water pump out this weekend, the pulley would 
> not rotate (and by the way, I only removed the belt, the throttle 
> barrell assembly and the intake plenum 'w pipe'). 
> 
> I saw on www.specialtauto.com a picture showing how to tell if the 
> pulley was pushed on far enough and sure enough it was out 3/4 of an 
> inch.
> 
> When I took the back of the pump off, I found that the impeller wheel 
> had indeed been rubbing the back of the water pump case, and in fact 
> there was quite a bit of damage to both the back and the impeller 
> wheel too.