Ummm that's not right!!!

[missin' 2]

So i have been out doing wot pulls for the last couple weeks after i get off work.

My tune with the new SD2 chip is getting better and better every run.

And suddenly things come to a hault. I start to get a faint smell of coolant burning, so i pull over and pop the hood. Coolant is pissing out of the bottom side of the water pump. Can't see exactly where tho because the oily is still on.

So i got pulled home and start to disassemble and found this...

What causes the spring to get sucked into the pump?
How do i keep it from happening again?

 

[missin' 2]

Here is the pic.

 

[notacarlo]

How old is the hose? The spring just collapsed and got sucked in.

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[TurboTdr3.8]

This is what I did , then it will never do that again GBODYPARTS .COM

 

[turbojoe1]

Wow crap!!!!

 

[missin' 2]

How old is the hose? The spring just collapsed and got sucked in.

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Maybe 4 years old...


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[notacarlo]

Ive seen a lot of people squeeze those checking one thing or another. That rarely helps.


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[Emiliano Lago]

Holy crap that's the first time I see something like that...

 

[Mike Horak]

I've seen high flow water pumps suck them out before, but never had one got that far. Makes me want to check my hoses.

 

[missin' 2]

Yes highly suggest.

Not sure how long it had been in there, but the pump still worked and everything. No noise or indication that it was in there. The coolant was coming out of the weep hole on the bottom side of the waterpump. It finally sucked enough spring in to rupture the seal and let coolant pass out the weep hole.

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[87geeinn]

Holy shit! All the money I've dumped into my car and I'm still running the original lower hose. Not for much longer, lol.


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[novaderrik]

get a new hose.. it won't require the spring.

 

[John Larkin]

I put new hoses on this summer and put the spring back in. Ain't skeered.

 

[ikle]

I don't think the spring is needed. A few years ago there was a thread on whether to reuse the spring or buy a hose with it already installed and the consensus was it wasn't needed. It was stated that GM installed the spring so the hose wouldn't collapse during the coolant filling process that they used at the time. I have been running a new hose without a spring for a couple of years now with no issues.

 

[missin' 2]

Yea i just reused the the same house without the spring. Obviously the spring was unusable.

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[ikle]

Yea i just reused the the same house without the spring. Obviously the spring was unusable.

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You might want to purchase a new hose, the hoses that came with spring might be made differently than the ones made without, you wouldn't wanting it to collapse. I don't know this for curtain but for like $10 I wouldn't take a chance. Just throwing my 2 cents out there.

 

[novaderrik]

the hose will only collapse if the radiator is plugged up and allows low pressure to be created in the hose, and maybe if you get on it before the thermostat opens..