I had a similar problem. Finally noticed it was leaking from the front of the head gasket and running down. You need to pinpoint the souce.

 

I would go to autozone and rent a cooling system pressure tester. Just attach it to the radiator and pump it up to build pressure in the system. Then look and see exactly where it is leaking. It's not very likely you received 4 or 5 bad pumps in a row.

 

+1 on the pressure tester, dont keep changing pumps find the source. But on the bright side I bet your getting pretty fast at changing waterpumps huh.

 

If you do find you need a waterpump, buy it on ebay. There is a guy on there who rebuilds pumps for a living and rebuilds them also and sells them on ebay. Paid about 70.00 about two years ago, and have put 10k on it since with out a problem. Just a fyi


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Andy Schuck

 

I've had brand new stuff fail from both places. Power steering pump to be exact. Had one fail from AZ, then went to Napa.....same dang thing.....

Went back to AZ and finally got a good one....sometimes this remanufactured stuff is a crap shoot.

 

I had a terrible experience w/ a reman from az...it leaks out of the actualy cast iron where it meet up w/ the metal piping which the hose clamped...along w/ around the sensor and 3 of the bolts...Got a non re-man one from AZ and not one dam leak. The reman are cheap like $60, the regular is like $120 def worth it. **** the reman. I had soooo many problems with it.

 

heh, original post was from 2005. hope he got the problem fixed by now!

 

Shoebox,

I hear you. When it leaked ~ I was a bit miffed & the 89 lb.in felt too lose. I checked my 94 Corvette Service manual (and Haynes) & they had 18 Ft. Lb. which is what I used ~ problem solved (and yes ~ it was a bit touchy pulling the torque). The water pumps are the same ~ what gives?