Subject: RE:1984 Water Pump by CFI-EFI on 2008/2/20 1:31:51
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The Problem with a water pump is, sometimes the weep hole doesn't wear out while driving around in town, then you try to go somewhere and it goes out on you while you are 100 miles away from home.
Weep hole wear out??? The Gen IIs and their optisparks are a different story, but on a Gen I engine, especially our C4s with the electric fan, seldom is a water pump failure catastrophic. Usually you get plenty of warning with a few drops on the floor, and often, for quite a while. OK, so you had a water pump suffer a sudden inconvenient failure. Certainly, it CAN happen. One way to avoid preventive maintenance and replace parts before failure is to trade it in every year or two. Like I said a couple of posts back, "I have a hard time getting into this "It's getting old, so I'd better replace it" mentality." And especially with a ECT sensor isn't going to leave you by the side of the road.
