Thanks for keeping us informed Bruce; wow, never seen it on a miata before. Was it the original pump? what year? How was the maint. history? (coolant had been changed regularily)
Congrats on fixing it, Ross On Apr 30, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > Partial post-mortem on my overheating issue. > > Pulled the water-pump. Impeller blades were no longer visible :-P > They had rusted/rotted off. There was nothing much there to pump/push water. > Sure surprised me. So it really WAS the water pump. > > New pump in. New pump clearly has an impeller! Putting everything back > together again. Need an o-ring for the thermostat housing to head junction. > After all the work, (not really hard) I am NOT going to reuse the old o-ring! > > -Bruce > > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower > _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
