[V8] Catastrophic pump failure

[NIck Miller]

Pretty straight forward build.  Get some brake cleaner or something to
remove all the tarnish on the inside of the pump.   Sounds like something
either got funky on the inside, or the front seal lost it.   The front seal
is your typical rubber seal for a rotating shaft, and its fairly well built.


The whole project sorta sucks, the X-caps are often seized pretty good, even
with the use of air tools.   I usually get about 3/4 of them out and a few
just stay stuck.

Gl!

nick

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:03 PM, toml99 at todomundo.com
<toml99 at todomundo.com>wrote:

> Well, we all know that we are living on borrowed time with these cars
> until come kind of "event" happens.  I was really enjoying the "leak
> free" nature of the 5-speed, until today.  I only ran a few errands,
> and probably only drove 10 miles or so, when I smelled the smell of
> burning Pentosin.   I've been watching an almost unnoticeable drip
> from what I thought was one of the x-caps, but I lost the entire
> volume of the reservoir today, and it looks like it's coming out of
> the shaft.  IT"S EVERYWHERE!  All the hoses are new.  With all the
> energy that went into building this car, and how disasterous the
> Hydraulic system is, maybe they could have figured out how to rig it
> into the Autocheck thing.  I'd much rather known that the dam had
> burst, rather than some bulb somewhere needs attention.  Good thing
> is I didn't fry it (still a little in there, as the steering was
> still working), and I recently got the rebuild kit in a "gift box"
> inside the large crate I just received(more on that later)....I will
> remove it tomorrow, and let you know how that goes.  Thanks whoever
> it was that posted that section from the Bentley on pump
> rebuilding....It will be a big help....Sincerely Tom
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