Re: [Fwd: Well, It Finally Happened.....]

[Todd Young <tyoung@wamnet.com>]

That's ME!  My water pump would make a chirp-chirp noise
upon start-up, but would go away in a couple minutes. Didn't
worry about it too much, until the damn thing locked up
completely and left me on the side of the road. If the water
pump starts chirp, follow advice, get it replaced and while
you/they are in there, replace the timing belt and ANY idlers
that look questionable. (Don't forget the T-stat.)

Chris Newbold wrote:

> That's the belt. The problem is that, sometimes, the water pump has
> a habit of crapping out before then. If it seizes, it'll take the timing
> belt out in short order.
>
> FWIW, the water pump on my 1993 90 starting "chirping" somewhere around
> 58k miles. It steadily got worse until I did the timing belt, etc. around
> 63k miles.
>
> At least one other lister has had a V6 water pump "chirping" which
> did seize on him...
>
> -Chris
> 1993 90CS 66k miles



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