[Stro]

What would they be?

Just curious. I don't think mine is failing..... yet.... but I thought I heard weird noises from around that area that sounds like a "hiss" for lack of a better term.


THanks guys!

 

[juggalo]

take off the timing belt and try to rotate the water pump pulley. my last water pump snapped the timing belt and when i put on the new belt, the water pump was leakin coolant everywhere.

 

[Bear45-70]

In most cases the seals go, allowing water into the bearing which then gets bad and noisy, allowing the shaft to wobble. Then the leaks start around the shaft.

 

[denisond3]

In terms of whether you can tell if a water pump is going to fail in the next 500 or 1500 miles - at the most inconvient place; I dont know of any way to tell.

I always replace them when I replace the timing belt. along with the coolant hoses. On each of the LX Escorts I have, I replaced the timing belt when I bought the car; because the prior owners didnt know if/when it had been done.

 

[Hardline]

I had a Mazda 626 that bearing had failed and the impeller ate through the housing! It sounded like a bad wheel bearing, for lack of a better term. Although the bearing failed somewhere around Nashville and it made it to Chicago and then to Atlanta before the pump started leaking coolant.

 

[zzyzzx]

Usually the timing belt goes first and if you are smart you always replace the timing belt tensioner and the water pump at the sale time. In other words, if you think there is a problem in that area, it could be the timing belt tensioner.

Sometimes water pumps leak before they go bad as well.

 

[Stro]

thanks guys.

I don't think I am going to remove the belt right now. I will just watch things and go from there.