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4th water pump in 3 yrs, seals keep leaking 200

posted by  someone claiming to be Russell on  Mon Jan 24 09:54 CST 2005 [RELATED]

Thanks for the replies.

I got the 4th waterpump in. I was going to try and replace just the gasket and o'ring but the old gasket is bonded to the pump. I tried scraping it for 20 mins and finally gave up on it. Looks like it needs to be hot-tanked or something.

Anyway, I noticed that the o-ring had slipped outward and you could see about 1/8" outside of the mating surface. Perhaps the high tension on my alternator belts had to do with it ? I did clean the mating surface really well like I always do (with the help of a mirror on a telescoping stick).

Any ideas on how to clean the old bonded gaskets off the old pumps ? BTW, I've noticed that the "new" pumps are usually refurbished units.






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