[Healeys] Water pump leak

[i erbs]

the seal is going away. Time to replace it before it fails completely
Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
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          BT7 engine and disk brakes


1967 MGB  [image: MG]

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:04 PM Michael Oritt <michael.oritt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I almost hesitate to post about another problem but here goes:
>
> Yesterday while almost done with a long ride to make sure that the brakes
> were okay (they were) I got a spatter of oily drops on the windshield and
> when I popped the bonnet i found a pretty liberal spray of oil across its
> underside, just above the fan.  This morning after cleaning everything off
> I put the car up on jack stands and ran the engine at about 2K to see if I
> could find the source.
>
> There is a slow but steady leak--perhaps a drop every three or four
> seconds--coming off of the back face of the water pump pulley, which leaks
> onto the fan belt and gets tossed across the engine compartment.  The
> strange thing is that it does not seem like engine oil as it is brown in
> color and has a definite bittersweet taste--nothing at all like the color
> or taste of the engine oil.  It is sticky and looks almost like Permatex
> Indian Head Gasket Shellac.
>
> There is a grease nipple on the water pump and though I know I lubed it
> when I last changed the water pump that was some time ago.  I am not
> certain about the color of the grease but am thinking it was either red or
> blue.
>
> There is no oil in the water nor any water in the oil.
> The leak is not coming out of the weep hole in the water pump.
> The leak does not seem like oil that is emulsified--it really seems like
> shellac but that makes no sense to me.
>
> Any thoughts will be appreciated.
>
> Best--Michael Oritt (BN1)
>
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