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Originally Posted by shadrach74
Is this something that happens often? I've never heard of a water pump destroying an engine block (or even the pump housing for that matter).
Besides, the question I asked pertained to "sending metal through the engine", not destroying the block. It seems to me that if the bearing failed to such a degree the the impeller starts beating the block to death, that the bearing failure and all of the symptoms that go with it have been ignored for a long...long..time.
I believe that Porsche used metal impellers on their pumps. Has this changed?
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The water cooled cars have always used plastic.