Water Pump Failure Traveling To The Eclipse
https://youtu.be/8FPLb5w8PRM Water Pump Failure OR A Not So Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The April 8th Solar Eclipse We were a couple hundred miles into our trip to see the solar eclipse....
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It helps to be handy…fo sho.
Unfortunately not everyone is as mechanically inclined or prepared.
But if a guy is driving old iron, it sure gets spendy if he ain’t!
on topic, thought you put a NEW engine in that truck a couple few years back. If so, that seems like an early water pump failure.
Or maybe you ran the old water pump when you did the engine swap?
I looked at the two pumps, side by side. The differences were minimal. I could find no indication of failure on the old pump. The only thing I could of is the the impeller felt tight when I tried to see if it was lose but when in the engine pumping coolant, there must be a lot more resistance and perhaps it was slipping while pushing fluid. Whatever the case, the new pump works and the truck is running great, until the ne t mechanical issue that is.
Sounds like the water pump went bad and blew the hose?
I have similar truck (99 F350, V10) with original water pump but with only 78k miles.
Good job on the on the road repair!
I'm pretty sure the hose blew out due to the resulting high temperature pressure and boil over. My scanner in monitoring mode read 240 degrees. It's been a couple weeks now and the truck is running fine and at proper temperatures 174 to 183, never higher, never lower. Other problems have popped up and been dealt with since. This trip has been a real mechanics special so far, and something tells me the future isn't going to disappoint in the fix it department.
As Fred Sanford would say to Lamont, I feel the big one coming on. We shall see. Take care...
