need help with overheating 88 100q

[Brett Dikeman]

>At 08:52 PM 8/6/2004 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
>  >At 1:16 AM -0400 8/6/04, Stpndsmnn at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>>It sounds like the water pump went bad but it doesn't sound horrible.
>  >
>>I hear this all the time in overheating situations- it's not
>>possible.  If the water pump 'fails', it shreds the timing belt to
>>pieces instantly.  The only other way the pump can go 'bad' is if it
>>starts leaking around the seal.

At 9:24 PM -0400 8/6/04, Kneale Brownson wrote:
>Is this 20-valve engine specific, Brett?  The water pump on my wife's 4kq
>failed by the shaft bearing or bushing (whatever that assembly is) wearing
>out and the coolant leaking past the shaft.  The shaft wore enough to allow
>the pulley to wobble but it didn't take out the timing belt.

Sorry for not being clear- what I meant is that there is no way for 
the pump to simply stop working without destroying the engine.

Your pump may have been wobbling, but it was still pumping coolant, right?

Brett
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