Tracy Crook wrote:

>Saw the first sign of waterpump failure on the engine.  Noticed a drop of
>coolant hanging from the pump pulley every morning when I took the cowl off
>to begin another day of talking airplanes & engines.  No noticable play in
>the pump bearings and I noticed no drop in coolant pressure on the way home
>but a new pump is definitely in order.  This was the original pump I got
>with the 1988 13B engine I bought back in 1992.
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>Tracy Crook
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The water pumps went out in my '86 plane and my '86 car two years ago,
so it is about right that your '88 water pump should be failing now.
They last exactly 15 years :)

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Perry Mick
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