Water pump seal or water pump or what?

[Philtopgun]

notice a drop of coolant on my garage floor yesterday. Looked underneath and the hose going into the water pump was wet on the back side. Today I got underneath there and was completely dry. I ran it around the block to get it hot and only thing I can see was possibly a bolt? to the right of the weep hole had a 1mm wet spot on it. here some pics n c what u think...
coolant level is slightly lower than where it suppose to be. The weep hole is clean inside from what i can see.

 

[Philtopgun]

'nother pic

 

[stacks04]

either way i would replace the pump. remember either way the crank bolt needs replacing.

 

[TheBac]

welcome to the wonderful world of waterpumps. You can reuse the crank bolt, I know many people who have.....just get the torque correct.

 

[rgullett83]

welcome to the wonderful world of waterpumps. You can reuse the crank bolt, I know many people who have.....just get the torque correct.

X2 I have reused it.

 

[custom8726]

welcome to the wonderful world of waterpumps. You can reuse the crank bolt, I know many people who have.....just get the torque correct.

I have re-used mine twice now, and TRQ it to the impact capacity I think its suppose to be around 250 FLBS IIRC.

 

[TheBac]

Looked on Alldata, its 260ft/lbs.

 

[Philtopgun]

Never could get it to get wet again for a week, but it's now been sealed with a new one. Not something I wanted to chance.

 

[2500HeavyDuty]

so what did they do pito

 

[Philtopgun]

they said they couldnt get it to leak while they had it, but said it was a well kept truck and didnt have a problem replacing it if thats what I wanted. So they put a new one on and sent me on my way.