[TR] TR3 water pump question

[Dave1massey at cs.com]

Thanks for the tip.  My pump started making noise at Bodega Bay on Highway 
1.  We were staying south of Napa which was 50 miles.  Made it back without 
incident, luckily, and we put the car on the trailer and headed home (well, 
after spending another day in Napa Valley driving the Escape).  

Someday soon I will order up a new pump and pulley and some Locktite RC609 
and hope for the best.

Dave

In a message dated 10/30/2013 9:27:37 PM Central Daylight Time, 
TR3driver at ca.rr.com writes: 
> Ditto.  My opinion, if you can push the pulley into position by hand, 
> you've got a problem.  It has to be a light press fit on the
> shaft.  I don't think I had anywhere near .030" clearance (before the 
> failure), but after the first tap the pulley fell into place
> and the pump only lasted a few months before the pulley worked loose, tore 
> up the keyway and snapped the threaded portion of the
> shaft.  It missed the radiator, but I don't know how.
> 
> Used Loctite RC609 on the replacements.  It's supposed to be able to 
> create a press fit with as much as .010" clearance (but they
> were a nice tight fit anyway).