Service warning: The water pump is failing 17 Articles

by William Remski

The water pump is mounted on the front of the engine and is connected to the fan, if your car has a mechanical fan. In any case, it runs off a drive belt connected to the crank pulley. Identify the belt and check it for ...read more

by Mike Webb

The water pump is the heart of the cooling system and continuously keeps the antifreeze/water mixture flowing through the engine, radiator and heater core. If you think your car's water pump is going to break let's first...read more

by Phillip Walter

How can you tell if your water pump is going to break? That's a question many of us don't want to think about, and really don't, until your car is being towed to the repair shop for a new motor that could have been saved i...read more

by Allen Teal

Of all of the semi-serious problems that can go wrong with little or no notice, having the water pump fail on your car rates near the top. Most of the time, you first learn of your water pump problem when your car overhea...read more

by Stanley Roberts

The water pump is one of the most common parts for failure on an engine. The water pump has the job of circulating the coolant water through your engine and into the radiator in order to remove heat. One thing a person...read more

by David Cadman

In order to detect if your Water Pump is about to fail, you need to know WHERE it is, and some of its fundamentals. With the hood open, the water pump is located at the front of the engine block, behind the bottom Radia...read more

by Dave Astley

As with any component on your car, to know when something is about to break means you have to understand where it is, what is does and what factors will affect it's operation. The water pump on your engine is driven dir...read more

by Jon Ybarra

You're driving along just fine and you catch a red light. You sit there and change the radio, look around and see who's in the cars around you, and at the height of your boredom waiting for the green you look at your gauge...read more

by Andy Cutler

Having just read a couple of these inaccurate articles, I felt compelled to write myself.I read one which seemed to think that a failing water pump would stop the circulation of the water.No necessarily so! The water pump ...read more

by Wilson Kirkendall

Your vehicle's water pump is always hard at work. It is running all the time the engine is operating. The pump is either driven directly by the camshaft, by a belt, or by a serpentine belt(large continuous belt that power...read more

by D. O'Larde

Steam with ethylene glycol smell means not so much as there is a leak in your car's cooling system but why the temperature gage or the engine overheat indication did not give a warning in good time before the boiling coola...read more

by Gary Wayne

Temperature is rising, a weird rattle or squeak emanates from under the hood, a puddle of water drips from under the car, but it starts and runs. After lifting the hood you check the oil, water, belts and brake fluid. You ...read more

by John Ledbury

How to tell if your car's water pump is going to break soon. The sign of a problem with the pump is a rise in water temperature, slow at first, but gradually rising. Another sign a change of sound from the engine. Some...read more

by Curtis Carper

Water pump failure, one of the quickest ways for your car to become dead along side the road. With a minimal of effort you can avoid this major inconvenience. In today's modern cars the best indicator is the fluid level ...read more

by Jamie Maiorana

WATER PUMP! There are two signs of your water pump on the edge of ending its pumping engine coolant days. First, your car overheats, even on a cold day &/or after/during a short trip. (usually this would happen after...read more

by Louis Winthorpe III

Unless you're Superman and have x-ray vision, there's no way to REALLY tell when your water pump will break but there are tell-tale signs that it is on its way out...and ways that you can prevent pre-mature failure. 1. ...read more

by Mark E Christensen

You run into the grocery store for a couple of items on your way home from work. And when you come out you notice a small puddle under the front end of your auto. You may blow this off as condensation from your air conditi...read more