Any vendor will do (Bus Depot, Vanagain, Volks Cafe ...) but get a new German made water pump. Remans are just not worth the trouble to install. A shop here in Houston installed a reman on my '85 that lasted all of 8,000 miles before the bearings gave out and it sounded like I was pushing gravel through the pump. Could be that when you installed the new engine you added a bit of extra tension or deflection on the belt and that started the premature wear on the pump. Chuck '85 Wolfsburg Westy - 'Roland the Road Buffalo' on 10/14/03 11:00 PM, Automatic digest processor at LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM wrote: > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:31:56 -0500 > From: "J. Naser Motlagh" <JNMOTLAG@SPRINTPCS.COM> > Subject: Can lightning strike the water pump twice? > > I replaced a waterpump about 3,000 miles ago with a rebuilt from Napa, > since then I replaced the engine. I put it all together and it ran great > for about month, then the waterpump sprung a leak around the pulley. Some > other things I noticed are little bits of belt on the oil tower an on the > timing protrusion, and the alternator is ever so slightly skew, like about > 1 degree, but no little bits of belt on the alternator side. > > So, what about replacing the engine can cause the waterpump to break? > Since I have to replace the pump anyway, who is the vendor of choice? > > Regards, > > J. Naser Motlagh > > -- > J. Naser Motlagh, MBA, PMP |
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