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From: ins_asac@jhunix.UUCP (Stephan Alexa Cooper)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Toyota water pump inquiry
Message-ID: <2288@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 19:18:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 19:18:17 1986
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In article <2057@cbsck.UUCP> swc@cbsck.UUCP writes:
>Have any Toyota owners out there had water pump problems?
>I have heard through the grapevine that Toyotas are known
>to have the water pump go out (or just its bearings, perhaps)
>at or around 50k miles.
>
>Any others that have heard/experienced this?
>
>[ I have an '82 Toyota Corolla SR5 Liftback that is only at 21k
>  and is grumbling up front in the water pump area ].

I had a similar experience.  On the car I used to drive, a 1977 Corolla
SR5 HB, the water pump died.  The weather had been cold for quite a while,
and the car had over 75K on it at the time, so I attributed it to those
two factors.  Needless to say it was NOT fun replacing the water pump when
it was below freezing out (this was 2 Febs. ago).  But I had been getting
some squeaking up front, sort of like a fan belt, before it went.  I think
the belts were loose, so I can't be too sure that that was it.  But the
answer is...Yes, I've had/heard this experience.
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	Steve Cooper
	Johns Hopkins University
	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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