Well in my experience it's very unusual. We've had our 87 for ~10 years and have NEVER replaced the water pump (155,000 miles). I did buy one from Ron just for insurance, but it's still unused. Not enough experience with our 90 Westy yet (only ~30,000 of our miles on it) but it shows no sign of needing one. Sounds like maybe you have had the belt too tight (most likely), or perhaps have a misalignment of pulleys (never seen that, but I guess it might be possible.) Dave 87 Wolfsburg 90 Westfalia
At 10:31 AM 6/26/98 -0700, Wolfsburg wrote: >This morning my Vanagon is getting it's sixth water pump put in!! Is it >common for the Vanagon to have this much problems with the water pump. >My Vanagon has 130,500 miles on it. This is the approximate times I had >to replace pumps: > > 1 6,000 covered under 2 year/24,0000 warranty > 2 23,900 covered under 2 year/24,000 warranty > 3 48,000 covered under emission warranty > 4 74,000 paid for > 5 96,000 paid for > 6 130,500 paid for > >Can someone tell me what is going on? > >Thanks, >Floyd Truskot > >1991 Vanagon Carat - red - 130,500 >1991 Vanagon Carat - white - 22,930 >1985 Vanagon GL - silver - 149,915 > |
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