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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:55:15 -0300
Reply-To:     Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
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From:         Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
Subject:      Re: Coincidence?
Comments: To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <012601d0e130$5c36a7f0$14a3f7d0$@gmail.com>
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Stuart,


That was my thought - a bad water pump would be of insignificant load on the idle of the engine .... now I need to figure out what else occurred while the pump was replaced.   


Maybe the Hyena was merely happy to have some overdue attention and the purring will be short lived ;-)


On 27-Aug-2015, at 22:25, Stuart MacMillan wrote:


> Roy,
> 
> The load on the water pump is constant at idle. It just pushes coolant
> around, so the load only varies with rpms, and it's not much. A/C has a
> variable on/off load at idle, but there are compensating rpm gizmos for
> that.  Irregular idle can have many sources, especially with the Digifant
> system.
> 
> Stuart
>
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