Re: Water pump question....
bblade said:
I put everything back together like the diagram shows, but I'm still not getting any water discharge when the motors running. I used a small amount of marine grease around the water pump impeller to help it turn better. Could that be an issue? Or maybe I'm not tourqeing down the water pump at the right specs and it's to tight. I did put the plastic key into the slot on the rubber impeller. I'm putting the big O ring inside the groove under the water pump housing, and the small O ring on top of the metal case of the rubber impeller. Is this correct? Everything worked fine before I took it apart, so I know it does work. Please help me with any info you can. Thank you very much..
Grease on the impeller is a good thing ...
Sounds like you assembled the pump correctly ...
Did you remove the water tube from the mid section when you dropped the gear case?
Generally, if the pump isn't the problem, then the other reasons that can cause water to not make it to the motor (and out the tell tale) are:
- water tube not properly aligned with grommet in water pump housing or the one at the top that feeds into the engine block (see images below)