Need secondary coolant pump!

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>> When you get nice looking secondary pump from a junkyard test it in a
>> bucket of water.  My did not pump but buzzed diligently .

> .... that is because the impeller is magnetically coupled to the pump and the
> impeller is jammed ... one of many failure mechanisms for this flaky part.
> The other major one is that the plastic gets brittle and breaks, and I've
> even had one leak where the two halves of the pump body were joined.  On the
> list of parts you should not get from a wrecker this would be one of them I
> would put near the top of the list.

Highest part on the list underneath fuel injection and hydraulic
circuit parts, where the risk of contamination overrules all else.

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