Water pump oil leaks

[Joe Martin Cantrell <agiyo@domain.elided>]

At 02:43 AM 1/27/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> A couple months ago, I asked the group for input into a substantial oil leak
> from the front of my 2-liter immediately after a rebuild.  Many of you
> offered suggestions, including one person who said the water pump might be
> the source.  Well, like an idiot, I didn't give the water pump enought
> consideration.  It was brand new after all.  So, the other day, I stopped at
> Besic Motorsports and asked Mike what it sounded like to him.  He immediately
> suggested checking the water pump housing in the tachometer drive housing.
Some years back, I believe I wrote about this.  Took me 3 times in and out 
with my new dealer-supplied OEM water pump to realize it had a porous 
casting in the tach drive housing.  Like many others, I assumed it was some 
bonehead thing I'd done.

Since writing about it, I have heard of several other examples with the 
same problem.  The quality of the impellers and general castings in the new 
pumps do not approach that of the ones from the '70s; I have a couple of 
used spares and will get them rebuilt before I'll waste time and money on a 
new piece of junk.  Actually, since both my used ones are in excellent 
shape, I never expect to have to buy another.

YMWV,
Joe
Portland
'72 Spider
'73 Berloni in progress 
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