I always thought it would leak out of the weep hole? And has anyone had any luck with discount auto waterpumps that have a lifetime warrenty?

 

when mine went out I replaced it with an mezierre electric water pump. when it did go, it looked nothing like that. the splines on the shaft were worn down on mine.

 

it looks like it's comming from the weep hole...

 

Is that a bearing failure? I had a freinds car that I maintained eat like 3 of them. For some reason his bearings would always fail.

If you want to throw a GM one on there I have one in my garage with like 5k miles that I pulled off for my EWP.

 

Then how would it travel up to the top of the pump?

I ordered one from advanced, $130 with a lifetime warrenty. Thanks for the offer though, if I wasn't so impatient (trying to get it ready for the track saturday) I would have taken you up on that offer.

 

In my dodge truck (I know theyre 2 different vehicles but a water pump is a water pump) I had a bearing failure and until the day I sold it I was finding spots of rusty antifreeze all over the my engine bay. Now yours might not be all over the place because the hood space of my truck is about triple what my lt1 is. But what im getting at is a bearing failure will let the antifreeze spray out all over the place so that could be why it is at the top up the wp.

 

When mine went it was all over like that to, i figured it was from it leaking from it spraying all over the place from the spline tossing spinning it every which way

 

I put it back together with the same waterpump, so far it looks like there are no leaks. I think it was just leaking between the waterpump and block, I'm not really sure. I didn't see anything coming out of the weep hole so I think its ok.