Water pump

[Speedfreak]

Not sure if this has happened to many folk. However a reconditioned water pump went on me after just a few hundred miles of use. Made a mess of fan and my trusty old radiator. It seem the shaft from front to back failed and the front part came away and had a fight with the rad. The rad lost. Santa bought me a new rad and fan.....water pump was exchanged for a "new" old stock one this time. A rare problem?

 

[rockdemon]

Ouch - that's not good. Did the person that supplied the water pump pay for a new rad?

 

[Speedfreak]

Yes I was given a better pump, new, not refurb and I paid just cost for the rad.
My old rad was fitted in 1985 and it came from a scrap yard then! Therefore it was a fair deal.