Seamus; You may see a puddle. There is a weep hole for the purpose of early warning to let you know the bearing/seal is failing. You sometimes can "feel" play in the bearing by wobbling the w/p pulley back and forth. Good Luck Ken Lewis kdlewis@juno.com 86 VW crewcab 85 VW Vanagon GL 60 356 coupe On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 19:46:57 -0600 Seamus Padraic Ragan <spr9c@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> writes: <<<<chomp>>>> >also... How do you tell when your water pump has gone kaput >other than watching your temp go up and all hell breaking >loose??? My pump is fine, but it would be nice to be able to >detect it just from a puddle on the ground or something. >thanks >seamus > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >~ Seamus Padraic Ragan ~ >~ University of Virginia ~ >~ Dept. of Chemistry ~ >~ email: spr9c@virginia.edu ~ >~ url: ~ >~ http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~spr9c/ ~ >~ Ph. lab: 804.924.1337 ~ >~ home: 804.293.5290 ~ > ~ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >
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