Re: i5 coolant pump friction ring

["frank j. bauer" <frankbauer@thevine.net>]

At 11:42 PM 11/10/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> while checking the family album for water pump part numbers, i noticed that
>> there should be a friction ring installed with the pump.
>> (051 121 017, mg 1, sg 21, ill 10-00, pos 15A)
>
>Mis-named o-ring?

that would be 035 121 043 (in the family album, mg 1, sg 21, ill 10-00, pos
16).
they show both items in the illustration.
the friction ring looks like it would be mounted concentric with the pump
shaft. within the cutaway of the impeller blades, between the impeller and
the machined face on the block against which the blade tips spin.
i still can't believe this item is on the fiche and the f/a and only one
guy has mentioned it in over 100,000 archived posts, a significant
percentage of which discuss water pump replacement!

frank