Without looking at the motor I can't suggest where but... remove the line from the water pump outlet and splice in a piece of clear tubing ( six inches of clear tubing and a short piece of metal tubing that fits inside diameter of clear tubing and the hose, hose clamps). Start the engine and watch the rate of flow. if it's slow to non existent it's the pump. To really tell, bypass the radiator ( for a short time only) eliminating the potential of flow restrictions there. On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Subject: Overheating > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > ------=_NextPart_000_04CF_01C409EC.0D1D91B0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > is there a way to tell if an overheating condition is caused by a bad > water > pump or a bad radiator, without throwing $ at the car just changing > stuff > until it's fixed? 2.1L Wasser. > > TIA |
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