The message to which you are about to reply is shown first. GO TO REPLY FORM



 VIEW    REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE Replies to this message will be emailed.    PRINT   SAVE 

HELP! Waterpump leak???? S70 1998

posted by  Kenric on  Tue Dec 17 14:54 CST 2002
Author: [PROFILE] [EVERY POST] [THREADS] [BEST POSTS] RSS Feed     [IGNORE ALL POSTS] [RELATED]

What the heck!
I have a 1998 S70 N/A with 90K miles.
At around 60K miles it developed a very slow coolant leak. I could never find the leak. At 85K I went to change the time belt and noticed a very small amount of coolant below the water pump. No evidence that it was coming from the weep hole. It looked like it was the water pump gasket. So during the timing belt change I changed the gasket on the water pump.
This seemed to fix the leak for a few thousand miles then the slow leak started again (every week or so I had to add coolant). Then after a couple more thousand miles the leak got big. A steady stream of coolant that looked like it was coming from the bottom of the water pump.
I pulled the pump off again and the gasket looked good. I put a new gasket and pump on and the leak was still there, not even diminished. It is very hard to see where this leak is coming from. It looks like it is coming out from between the plastic timing cover shroud and the block, directly below the water pump.

Could this leak be coming from somewhere else?
Could the lower water pump locating dowel be protruding to far and keeping the water pump from seating against the block all the way?

Has anyone seen a problem like this before?





USERNAME
Use "claim to be" below if you don't want to log in.
PASSWORD
I don't have an account. Sign me up.
CLAIM TO BE
Use only if you don't want to login (post anonymously).
ENTER CAPTCHA CODE
This is required for posting anonymously.
OPTIONS notify by email
Available only to user accounts.
SUBJECT
MODEL/YEAR
MESSAGE

DICTIONARY
LABEL(S) +
IMAGE URL *
[IMAGE LIBRARY (UPLOAD/SELECT)]

* = Field is optional.

+ = Enter space delimited labels for this post. An example entry: 240 muffler


©Jarrod Stenberg 1997-2022. All material except where indicated.


All participants agree to these terms.

Brickboard.com is not affiliated with nor sponsored by AB Volvo, Volvo Car Corporation, Volvo Cars of North America, Inc. or Ford Motor Company. Brickboard.com is a Volvo owner/enthusiast site, similar to a club, and does not intend to pose as an official Volvo site. The official Volvo site can be found here.