In a message dated 2/13/03 10:04:47 PM, jasondenton@ATTBI.COM writes: << . . . I just replaced all the belts and the problem persists. . . . Any ideas? . . .
1). Is the water pump going? >> Jason, I had this problem once. Occasionally on starting, the belts, or so I thought, would produce a squealing sound from the very bowels of hell. I went through the drill of installing new belts and tensioning them properly before I noticed the excessive axial float of the water pump. It was a fairly new one of those why-spend-the-extra-money-it-is-as-good-as-the-OE-part pumps from you know who (name withheld because I can't abide the endless babble its mention will provoke). The squealing was from the chatter as the errant impeller milled away the engine case. What threw me was that the defective water pump never leaked a drop of coolant and it had no radial slop. George |
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