Ferrari Mailing List: Water pump

[Clyde Romero (clyderomerof4]

While I was doing the work one of the other Techs asked me about the water pump and he was there when I thought I had a leak in my new engine after I had installed it

He was shocked when I told him that the original engine had never had a water pump and it had over 100k miles on it

And I fact I can't remember changing a pump on any of my cars 

It seems that the technology has really helped in that arena 

On another note I am hoping to tear down that old engine in the future to check it for wear

Currently the only weak spot on my car is the transaxle assembly which when I did the last major service had very little metal on the magnetic plug

The modern day lubricants are just amazing when it comes to this

Nothing like the old days of mineral based lubricants 

With regards to my oh my god water pump leak, the pump has a carbon seal and since this was a 1993 that had not been driven much the seal was shrunken and needed to be heated up by the water and engine block assembly to seal properly 

Another reason to drive you car instead of wax it!

Gotta go fly my last trip of the year

Clyde Romero

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