Belt & Water Pump Dead
06-05-06, 06:31 PM
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Belt & Water Pump Dead
Just got the call from Lexus, my belt is holding on by 6-7 threads and has wrapped itself around the water pump to a point where the pump will not turn.
For everyone at the NorCal Dyno day, I offically use this as my excusse for being down 20 HP on the dyno. ( there has to be some good out of all this )
Has anyone else every had anything like this.
The car stopped while my wife was driving on 280, caughed twice and shut down.
Have not had the estimate for fix, will find out the damage Thursday
Oh well some days are better than others.
For everyone at the NorCal Dyno day, I offically use this as my excusse for being down 20 HP on the dyno. ( there has to be some good out of all this )
Has anyone else every had anything like this.
The car stopped while my wife was driving on 280, caughed twice and shut down.
Have not had the estimate for fix, will find out the damage Thursday
Oh well some days are better than others.
06-15-06, 09:57 AM
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What 2K gets
Post mortem
when the motor was built at 50,000, ( now 78,000 )we used the original pulleys and water pump, and put in a new belt, remeber this drives the cams also.
What we think happened was the water pump started failing, creating drag, creating additional load on the pulleys, finally the water pump froze, no noise ever!!!!!.
when the water pump froze the belt was destroyed, literally 6-7 strings left, the cam timing changed the engined died while my wife was driving at 70 on the freway. she got off and parked the car.
The other pulleys showed cracked rubber supports.
Bottom line all is running just fine now after $2,000 pulleys were $150-$190 each plus water pump, belt and labor.
when the motor was built at 50,000, ( now 78,000 )we used the original pulleys and water pump, and put in a new belt, remeber this drives the cams also.
What we think happened was the water pump started failing, creating drag, creating additional load on the pulleys, finally the water pump froze, no noise ever!!!!!.
when the water pump froze the belt was destroyed, literally 6-7 strings left, the cam timing changed the engined died while my wife was driving at 70 on the freway. she got off and parked the car.
The other pulleys showed cracked rubber supports.
Bottom line all is running just fine now after $2,000 pulleys were $150-$190 each plus water pump, belt and labor.
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