besides your car overheating??? Is there a quick way to check without taking everything apart???
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You need a 2" thick stake and a meat thermometer.
If the car is cold and you start it up, if the water pump is working the stake will take 20 minutes to cook.
But if you put the meat thermometer in the a/c duct and if the temperature is only 60 degrees then it's time to take the baked potatoes out.
Clear?
If the car is cold and you start it up, if the water pump is working the stake will take 20 minutes to cook.
But if you put the meat thermometer in the a/c duct and if the temperature is only 60 degrees then it's time to take the baked potatoes out.
Clear?
Hi DeTom,
With your engine cool, momentarily remove the radiator cap to insure there is no trapped pressure in your cooling system, then replace the cap. Jack your Pantera up so you can work underneath. Disconnect the heater hose supplying hot coolant from the engine block to the heater core under the car where it attaches to the pipe than runs through the console, and wedge or tie the free end of the hose somewhere so that it points at the ground.
Now start the motor. If the pumps impellar is turning, it will quickly pump the entire contents of your cooling system onto the ground with pressure, like from a garden hose. If it isn't turning, nothing will pump onto the ground, a little will dribble out as the coolant expands from heat.
Warning, do this somewhere where it dosn't matter how much of a mess you make! Afterwards you'll have to hose the coolant out from under your car & let things dry before you can go back underneath and reconnect the hose. Be ready to refill your cooling system too, have coolant & distilled water on hand, etc.
Your friend on the DTBB
With your engine cool, momentarily remove the radiator cap to insure there is no trapped pressure in your cooling system, then replace the cap. Jack your Pantera up so you can work underneath. Disconnect the heater hose supplying hot coolant from the engine block to the heater core under the car where it attaches to the pipe than runs through the console, and wedge or tie the free end of the hose somewhere so that it points at the ground.
Now start the motor. If the pumps impellar is turning, it will quickly pump the entire contents of your cooling system onto the ground with pressure, like from a garden hose. If it isn't turning, nothing will pump onto the ground, a little will dribble out as the coolant expands from heat.
Warning, do this somewhere where it dosn't matter how much of a mess you make! Afterwards you'll have to hose the coolant out from under your car & let things dry before you can go back underneath and reconnect the hose. Be ready to refill your cooling system too, have coolant & distilled water on hand, etc.
Your friend on the DTBB
It's been awile.,but the last time my waterpump went bad,I rembember fluid leaking from the waterpump area.
I didn't know that your talents went that far Doug!
Expert on cooking who would have thought...LOL
Dennis
Expert on cooking who would have thought...LOL
Dennis
quote:Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
You need a 2" thick stake and a meat thermometer.
If the car is cold and you start it up, if the water pump is working the stake will take 20 minutes to cook.
But if you put the meat thermometer in the a/c duct and if the temperature is only 60 degrees then it's time to take the baked potatoes out.
Clear?
Thanks George, I will do that next weekend. 
Not as assured as George's method, but a simple and clean way. With the car cold, start the engine. Monitor but grabing the coolant tubes underneath the car or other likely place. As the engine heats up the thermostat will open and hot coolant will flow through the tubes. One of the two tubes will heat up first (hot coolant from the engine pumping to the radiator). In time as the radiator heats the other line will also become warm. The movement of the hot water assures the pump is working and moving coolant through the system.
Heck, if I can feel any kind of flow at all, hot or cold, iy tells me water is moving. I like that even better than having hot coolant spewing on my face. I didn't know you could feel water flowing through hoses that way.