I took my car out for a leisurely drive to the video store to return some
videos, low and behold I get home and I here a funny noise in my engine. I
lift the hood and see that radiator fluid is coming out the bottom of my
Water Pump (great!! had plans to do a Run next weekend etc.)
Before I get into tearing this apart, is there any things I should be looking
for, i.e. what caused the pump to go bad, could this just be a symptom of
something bigger wrong. What are some things I should look at or look for
before just slapping on a new water pump and hoping thats the only problem.
I was already planning before this, on doing some stuff to increase the
tension on the timing chains since occasionally only after driving for long
periods of time when I would stop at idle my chain would make a funny noise
(like a rattle) then the noise would go away at higher rpms once I was on the
road.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!!
Lou Smaldino
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