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Subject:Re: Water pump premature failure
From:Benny boy
Date:Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:33:22 -0500

You must have an 84 single groove pulley? the other one won't bent!

If you have an single groove pulley, that can happen but you will see it
wave/move.

If not an 84, and if it's a tripple groove one... search elsewhere.

Vanagon water pump will go out of order pretty fast if:
-After market carp
-to tight, i mean it, this one should be a loose a possible (belt)
-Bad mixture of coolant, yea!

By an HEPU or a Graft, make sure the belt is loose.

Ben
http://www.benplace.com/

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:32:48 -0500, Geza Polony <gezapolony@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I'm thinking that a warped crankshaft pulley is causing premature failure of
>my water pumps, which only seem to last around 15K miles or so before they
>start screeching at me. Has anybody dealt with this before? Is it a real
>nightmare to change the drive pulley in the car, with that 258 ft.lbs of
>torque Bentley calls for? How do these things get warped to begin with?
>
>Thanks--