Water Pump Carnage

[maverickmk]

My wife's bonehead brother had his car towed to my house yesterday. He said he was just driving along and all of the sudden he heard a loud bang and the car overheated. After I did some looking around I found that the water pump locked up causing the serpentine belt to come apart. I have to believe there was a lot of squealing and clanking going on before the loud bang [S
I've never seen this before. Here is a pick of the old one & a new one.
(It's a Mitsubishi Outlander - huge pile of crap)

 

[donsrods]

Oh yeah, when they go like that you swear your engine blew. I went through 3 Ford Racing pumps on my 27 before I discovered I had the wrong pulleys and was overdriving it by about 50%..........I bet that sucker was spinning a million miles an hour before it grenaded itself. The difuser ring in the picture is supposed to be welded to the vanes, but it tore itself loose.

Did you get every little piece of shrapnel out of the cooling system? If not guess where it will end up?

Don

 

[Willowbilly3]

It looks like the old and new have opposite rotation.

 

[Toad]

It looks like the old and new have opposite rotation.

Agreed! Look at the bolt patterns, doesn't look like that's gonna match up!

Toad

 

[Old Iron]

It looks like the old and new have opposite rotation.

Good eye !!!!

 

[Old Iron]

Agreed! Look at the bolt patterns, doesn't look like that's gonna match up!

Toad

Another good eye !!!

 

[Bamamav]

Here is a pick of the old one & a new one.

That's two totally different pumps. Wonder if he's found out yet that the new one won't bolt up?

 

[maverickmk]

Wow! I didn't even notice that. It's running like a champ, but I better take a closer look to make sure it doesn't overheat. My brother-in-law is not the best at keeping tabs on his car - obviously.
Thanks for the heads up guys.