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seningen · 07-25-2012, 12:51 PM

BTW, I have my daily driver because of a water pump failure that ended
up with an intermix -- in this case the freeze plug in the heads blew. (I bought it that way)

about 25,000 miles after I rebuilt the engine with a new water pump,
the water pump failed again.

tons of white smoke at the rear of the car -- however it was just the coolant
dumping and spraying on the headers. I was 2 blocks from my house and limped home
(however temp never rose) and I was still leaking water in my driveway.

2 hours later (I had a spare WP), I was back on the road.

Mike

07-25-2012, 12:51 PM	#6
seningen Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: austin Posts: 825	BTW, I have my daily driver because of a water pump failure that ended up with an intermix -- in this case the freeze plug in the heads blew. (I bought it that way) about 25,000 miles after I rebuilt the engine with a new water pump, the water pump failed again. tons of white smoke at the rear of the car -- however it was just the coolant dumping and spraying on the headers. I was 2 blocks from my house and limped home (however temp never rose) and I was still leaking water in my driveway. 2 hours later (I had a spare WP), I was back on the road. Mike __________________ Drivers: '15 Panamera Hybrid (wife's), ' 01 996 GT2, 00 Boxster S, '96 993 Çab/Tip (wife's) Race Cars: '75 911 RSR Replica & '99 Spec Boxster mike@lonestarrpm.com Last edited by seningen; 07-25-2012 at 01:02 PM.