This is a bad water pump. You are lucky as ours leaked elsewhere and
caused all sorts of problems. The hole is supposed to be there and in all
the TR7s I have seen they all have them.
Good Luck
John
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> From: John Di Fede <difejo@consumer.org>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: TR 7 Coolant Leak
> Date: Monday, December 01, 1997 9:05 AM
>
>
>
> I recently aquired a 1980 TR-7. The engine runs, but leaks coolant
> from a oval hole (vent?) in the engine block just below the water
pump
> inlet. I can see into the hole and it looks to be the water pump
> housing in the engine block.
>
> My questions.
>
> Does this type of leak indicate a bad water pump? Since the pump is
> in the engine block I'm reasoning that a bad (leaky pump) would
leak,
> and rather then leak into the crank case, it was designed to leak
down
> the outside of the engine block.
>
> And should the oval hole in the side of the block have some sort of
> cover?
>
> Can anybody help me? The parts catalogues don't show this level of
> detail, and I haven't received the shop manual yet.
>
> I'm hoping that the block is not cracked.!
>
>
> John DiFede difejo@consumer.org
> Hopewell Junction NY.
>
> 73 MGB
> 75 TR-6
> 80 TR-7
>
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