So I'm sure there is a way to do this but I don't know how, so I'll turn to all of you.

I like the idea of having an electric water pump but the idea of it failing and all I have is my gauges that I glance down at to make sure things are ok scares the hell out of me, so how would one go about measureing th current draw and wiring it up to an led light that would turn on on if it did fail, basically you know, an idiot light

While I know it would be fairly instant when it stops working it would still take a few minutes for the motor to actually start to overheat, it would be nice to have a light go off to say it's not working than to glance down and all the sudden be redline and overheating, at that point you're very likely to blow a head gasket or worse. Early warning would allow one to pull off the road and say well crap, but still at least not have to do any major work, just swap out the pump.


Could we maybe plumb a piece into the cooling system to tell if there is coolant flow?

the only other option I can think of is to measure current flow, if it's not going to be significant than maybe the latter would be a better thing to look into rigging up.

 

If you want an indicator lamp or switch in the inside of the car to tell you when the pump is running or not. You will need to run two wires to the inside of the car. The wires can be ran through the firewall through the rubber gourmet underneath the PCM. Find a good location for the switch and the indicator lamp, I made a custom bracket for mine that mounts where the cassette holder is.

CSI Electric Water Pump Installation

 

Some good info in this thread...

http://web.camaross.com/forums/showt...r+pump+diagram

 

I think my post was misread or maybe I did a poor job of explaining, I wanted to have a light telling me when the motor in the pump went dead and wasn't circulating the fluid, turning it on manually isn't going to matter when the motor of the pump itself is dead. I was wondering how I could wire up something of this nature