4kq overheating - still

Kneale Brownson knotnook at traverse.com
Fri May 30 14:53:13 EDT 2003


At 10:28 AM 05/30/2003 -0700, Bernard Littau wrote:
>Hi Ben,
>
>If all the hoses and passages you can inspect are fine, and the radiator is
>not clogged, then it must be something else.
>
>The heater putting out marginal heat means you do not have good flow (duh!
>:-) through the heater core.  I would pull apart the water pump and take a
>look.  I've had a water pump separate the impeller from the shaft on a non
>Audi, so this might be a possibility.  You may also have a clog in one of
>the passages to/from the pump chamber.

The water pump in my wife's 4kq campmobile had a "floater" impeller
also.  But that baby was leaking coolant too.




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