leakage??

[walt101786]

wanna hear ur opinions guys....not sure if that's the a/c leakage? if it is then how do i fix it?

[Betrivent]

That's the water pump leaking. It's normal for our cars a bit actually.. check the underside of the hood. If there's pink spray there too, then your water pump is leaking under pressure. Mine does this, but it hasn't failed me yet. I've got spray under the hood, a lot of it, and I've not lost any coolant nor had the pump fail yet.

[walt101786]

is there any way i can fix the problem?

[Betrivent]

Without replacing the water pump, no.

[walt101786]

so pretty much i had to replace a new water pump right

[Betrivent]

YOu don't *have* to, as I said mine does that too and it's fine otherwise

[A-Dingo-Ate-My-Baby]

A water pump weep hole prevents a major problem from occurring, by letting minor leakage have a place to escape.

The system operates under pressure, and a tiny bit of fluid almost invariably weeps past the pump shaft
seal, but it's really, really tiny. As in not worrying about replenishment for 50,000 miles tiny, as others have found.

Small amounts of moisture or oil around the weep hole is probably not a problem, but if there is significant leakage of water or oil, it's time to replace the water pump.

Keep an eye on your coolant level (cold, measured at the overflow bottle) if you see a significant coolant loss
(low to no coolant in the overflow when cold) the pump probably needs replacing (should replace it anyway, if it
is leaking, the next time you do the serpentine belts)


[every word above was stolen, but is the truth about the 'weeping']

[auxmike]

I've never seen the antifreeze shoot onto that hose before like that. Only under the underside of the hood. My first pump started doing that at 30,000mi. the second one started a little over 1200mi! It's been on and off since. Unless I see a steady loss, I'm riding out the winter with it as is. I bought a spare A/C Delco pump and a gallon of the Toyota antifreeze so I'm ready on a moments notice if it fails bad again...

[Betrivent]

Well if it can hit the hood in a line pattern you can reason it can hit anything else in the area in a pattern like that.

[Betrivent]

I don't know the colour of AC fluid.. maybe it's that? it COULD be leaking out of the AC hose

[walt101786]

actually there are times that i had found some pinkish stains under my hood....so iunno....but i had asked my uncle earlier and he told me that its the a/c hose that might be leaking...so iunno but as for now....i'll leave it as is and hopefully it doesnt turn as bad as i thought and im gonna buy that type of hose and a water pump just in case it stop working...cus now i am sitting little more than 60,000 miles like maybe around 63,000 miles or so....

[johnny_vitz]

An a/c leak would look like a clear oil, unless there had been dye put in in which case it would be a bright green oil (very noticeable with a UV light-fluorescent dye) The pink can only be coolant

[walt101786]

i did a lil more research on this....which i had asked one of my friend and my teacher who is a master machanic..both who told me that its the A/C hose that need to replace and i need to re-charge my a/c....so that's what i heard

[Betrivent]

you could always just wipe it of and check it every time after you drive to see what the drip/spray pattern is while it's wet.

[Yaristeve]

Check the weep hole on the water pump and see if there is any pink crud there?

[barryware]

Originally Posted by walt101786

i did a lil more research on this....which i had asked one of my friend and my teacher who is a master machanic..both who told me that its the A/C hose that need to replace and i need to re-charge my a/c....so that's what i heard

When you are finished with that, then find time to replace the water pump.

Look at the underside of the water pump pulley with a flashlight and mirror, or remove the pulley.. You'll see.

I had the same pink "splat" I never noticed till I had to replace the water pump. The impeller was hitting the engine block which is what made me check it out to begin with.

That also explained why my ac compressor was always running.. Some pink crusty stuff fell into the compressor clutch (from behind the water pump pulley, due to the leak) and provided just enough engagement to keep the compressor spinning whether the clutch was electrically engaged or not. You couldn't see any of this (except for the splat) till the water pump pully was removed. My pump was leaking for quite some time but a very small leak. Never any drips that I noticed on the garage floor.

[BLH]

I found mine. When I saw the streak of pink crud. Running from the back to front on the inside of the hood. Also the whole inside rim of the pulley was full of pink crud.