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Re: TR 7 Coolant Leak

To: "John Di Fede" <difejo@consumer.org>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: TR 7 Coolant Leak
From: pearesto@totcon.com (pearesto)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 21:26:38 -0800
This is a bad water pump.  You are lucky as ours leaked elsewhere and
caused all sorts of problems.  The hole is supposed to be there and in all
the TR7s I have seen they all have them.

Good Luck

John


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> From: John Di Fede <difejo@consumer.org>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: TR 7  Coolant Leak
> Date: Monday, December 01, 1997 9:05 AM
> 
> 
>      
>      I recently aquired a 1980 TR-7.  The engine runs, but leaks coolant 
>      from a oval hole (vent?) in the engine block just below the water
pump 
>      inlet.  I can see into the hole and it looks to be the water pump 
>      housing in the engine block.
>      
>      My questions.
>      
>      Does this type of leak indicate a bad water pump?  Since the pump is

>      in the engine block I'm reasoning that a bad (leaky pump) would
leak, 
>      and rather then leak into the crank case, it was designed to leak
down 
>      the outside of the engine block.
>      
>      And should the oval hole in the side of the block have some sort of 
>      cover?
>      
>      Can anybody help me? The parts catalogues don't show this level of 
>      detail, and I haven't received the shop manual yet.
>      
>      I'm hoping that the block is not cracked.!
>      
>      
>      John DiFede                difejo@consumer.org
>      Hopewell Junction NY.  
>      
>      73 MGB
>      75 TR-6
>      80 TR-7
> 

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