Water pump leak was ...Re: Timing Belt on a 3.0

[Grant Lenahan]

I dont know. I have relatively little experience.

but my thinking is that the water pump is a bushing. A supposedly  
close-tolerance water tight bushing.

When it leaks, it is losing its tolerance/ When it is losing its  
tolerance it is more likely to fail.

QED.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt it.

Grant
On Dec 18, 2008, at 12:53 PM, MXHOWES at aol.com wrote:

> Just a few questions since there is a lot of discussion pointing  
> toward the
> water pump causing the timing belt failures.
>
> I have a 2,8 30v.
>
> Are not water pump problems much more common on the 1.8 and rare on  
> the  2.8?
>
> I had a small coolant leak for over a year (about 4oz/month), could  
> never
> find where it was coming from. Just recently it started  losing  
> about 2oz a  day
> and I started to notice a small coolant spot on the ground. I   
> traced the
> leak to dripping off the oil pan, coming from the front right   
> front of the
> engine.  I assume that this is a water pump leak. It  doesn't leak  
> a drop when
> running or when you first shut off, about 2~3 hours  after cooling  
> down a small
> puddle will show up.
>
> The first T-belt job was done at 90K and now I got about  70K  on  
> this TB. I
> was going to wait to 180K for the next TB job  (another 20K) or at  
> least till
> summer time when it's more covenant to work on  the car.
>
> So the question is ......Does a water pump leak indicate a pending  
> water
> pump failure?
>
> Thanks
> Jim
>
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