- 1. Water Pump - on its way out! (score: 1)
- Author: Dr David McNaughton <david@mcna.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:03:03 +0100
- Hi Folks, Another question! I use my MG every day and cover 172 miles. I just noticed a real small drip of coolant on the front cross member. It is under the water pump and I guess the seal is leakin
- /html/mgs/2000-05/msg00922.html (7,426 bytes)
- 2. Re: Water Pump - on its way out! (score: 1)
- Author: Geoffrey Gallaway <geoffeg@sloth.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:15:25 -0400 (EDT)
- I would say you can continue to drive it daily just be carefull. Take a few gallons of water with you and see if the dripping has increased at the end of every trip. If it starts to get worse it prob
- /html/mgs/2000-05/msg00924.html (8,647 bytes)
- 3. Re: Water Pump - on its way out! (score: 1)
- Author: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <Lundgren@iname.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:39:01 -0600 (MDT)
- I would expect an instant failure at some unknown time in the furture... (Might as well fix it now unless you like to risk walking 150 miles any more than normal...)
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- 4. Re: Water Pump - on its way out! (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:24:28 -0700
- It has been my experience that water pumps tend to drip out of a small hole built especially for the purpose of letting you know that the water pump bearing is starting to go. Unless you have a loos
- /html/mgs/2000-05/msg00928.html (8,764 bytes)
- 5. Re: Water Pump - on its way out! (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 08:44:23 +0100
- Mine has had a very small drip like you describe for several years and several thousand miles. I bought a new water pump at the time but haven't fitted it yet as play is minimal and so is water loss.
- /html/mgs/2000-05/msg00953.html (8,163 bytes)
- 6. Re: Water Pump - on its way out! (score: 1)
- Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:16:36 EDT
- << I use my MG every day and cover 172 miles. I just noticed a real small drip of coolant on the front cross member. It is under the water pump and I guess the seal is leaking a little. There is no a
- /html/mgs/2000-05/msg00960.html (8,090 bytes)
- 7. Re: Water Pump - on its way out! (score: 1)
- Author: Gonaj@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:36:13 EDT
- I have seen it go both ways, most recently I had a pump seal fail catastrophically during the course of 1 35 mi. trip. Gave no previous indication. Others have leaked slowly for days w/o complete fai
- /html/mgs/2000-05/msg00988.html (7,029 bytes)
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