Auxiliary turbo coolant pump, bypassing - a warning

[Larry C Leung]

Thanks for the tip!

LL - NY, grey, 90 elbow sitting in the toolkit in the boot

On Sat, 5 May 2001 19:12:48 -0400 "Kevin Phillips"
<kevphill at mediaone.net> writes:
>I fitted my glue and screw repaired turbo coolant pump today. It has 
>been
>by-passed with a 3/4" gray PVC 90 degree elbow.
>I noticed that the elbow has changed shape rather drastically and I 
>think it
>could have failed sometime later. I have only done 1 hot run from the
>airport the other night (lots of fun) so I think that the coolant gets 
>too
>hot for the PVC to handle.
>If you are going to do this by-pass yourself consider it to be very
>temporary.
>
>Kevin Phillips AIM "quattrohead"
>Western Massachusetts
>1990 200q
>1995 900 SET
>Cell 413 519 9034
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