[JDMAflac]

How do you tell if the waterpump has gone bad while the motor is still intact?

 

[XCLR8TN]

Mine was leaking thru the weephole. That's what the weephole is for... once the seal goes bad in the pump, the coolant will flow out thru the weephole so you know something is wrong! I could see coolant all over the plastic undertray thing.

 

[Diego Dangers.]

make sure that you are topped off with fluid. let me the engine warm up, drive it around a bit whatever it takes.

open the hood, grab the upper radiator hose with one hand and rev the motor through the TB with the other. if you feel a surging as you're accelerating, you're good to go. if not, you're not.

 

[JDMAflac]

pic of weephole?

thanks guys. The engine doesn't overheat in the fall/winter but does in summer. Just trying to solve the problem.

 

[Fritch]

yeah I think mine is leaking from the weephole right now. After driving around for a while and parking in the garage/driveway a small puddle starts to form under the car. I can't really see where the coolant is coming from but it does get all over the plastic tray

 

[Agent935]

If your car is pissing itself it's time for a new waterpump. you can probably limp it around for a while but eventually water is just gonna start pouring out.

 

[JDMAflac]

okay, crossing that one off the boards.

 

[XCLR8TN]

I drove mine for about a month with it leaking coolant out of the weephole. I just kept a gallon of 50/50 in the car to top it off when it got low. While mine was running I just took off the radiator cap (not when it was HOT), and looked down in, there was coolant flowing, so I knew the water pump was ok and pumping it around, but was going bad.

When I got in there to do the TB/WP, I noticed there was NO THERMOSTAT--which explained why I had no heat. It hasn't overheated since I did all the work and put in a new thermostat so I guess I did ok.