Water Pump noises?

[DGraber460 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 1/6/2002 8:27:28 AM Mountain Standard Time,
t44tq at mindspring.com writes:


> What does a faulty water pump sound like?
>
Who did the work?
I have been down the water pump noise road recently, and found that the wrong
belt  tension will produce 2 types of noise. Too tight will give the "turkey
gobble" noise, and way too tight will give a whine as you describe.
I had the turkey noise but having done the belt myself, I was convinced it
wasn't that tight. I gradually increased the tension a little at a time
hoping to cure the noise. It got worse until it finally just whined. I then
gradually loosened it and the noise finally disappeared.
Gradually is a _very_ important term here.
HTH

Dennis
Denver
Life is too short to drive reliable boring cars.