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I still have good
compression all around, I just need to replace the water o-rings. I am
going to use the TES o-rings. But even that won’t help if I can’t solve
this damn circulation problem. I am really at whit’s end. There is
no reason I shouldn’t be making coolant go round and round.
Hi Dave. I'm really
sorry to hear about the toasted o-ring. Hopefully, you can get it all
back together soon.
As for the coolant problem,
the best thing I can suggest is to get another set of eyes to look at
this. As you well know, the cooling system just isn't that
complicated, but it's still possible that you're overlooking something. I
couldn't count the number of times I've traveled to a scanner that's been
down for days, only to find that the site engineer has repeatedly
overlooked something simple. It's usually something so simple that we
mentally take it for granted as being OK. I think of this as the
brain playing a practical joke on us. Ever look for something you
know you had in your hand just a minute ago, search the room over, and find it
on the desk right in front of you. I'm convinced that my brain has a
sense of humor all it's own.
I guarantee, we
have enough folks on this list to get your coolant problem
resolved. For starters, how about
posting a picture of your water pump housing that shows all the modification
that was done to it. I would still suspect that something is wrong with
the way it was modified.
Before you take off the
pump, can you rig a large pulley on a drill, so you can drive the pump
without running the engine? You should be able to have someone run
the pump, while you disconnect hoses at various points in the system to
prove that you have flow.
Good
luck,
Rusty (Philips cut off
my network access in seconds, but will need two weeks to restore it...
sigh)
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