Water pump bullet dodged!

June 09, 2013, 05:16:22 pm

A friend with a CC changed his flat engine belts and noticed that a tensioner felt "gritty". When we went to check mine for comparison we found that one of my belts was in bad shape so I bought a new one and went to install it. The flat pulley on the water pump wiggled and I found that the bearings were going. Cost was $169 and a little antifreeze and a couple of hours work. That sucker would have gone out somewhere where there would have been none for sure!

Re: Water pump bullet dodged!

Reply #1 – June 12, 2013, 09:45:32 am

We'll take lucky when it's offered! That's almost how I lucked into discovering the siezed idler pulley bearings just before they finished breaking the shaft they rode on...My preflight walkaraound gets bigger and bigger because of anecdotes like this...

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