Reply To: WATER LEAK @ WATER PUMP

[David FaulknerParticipant]

This little cup seems to keep takeing oil, can it be given to much oil? Or do you keep filling till oil seepage stops, frightened that oil may get onto Clutch.

Re reading the post from Chris there may be a difference between older and newer water pumps (mine is the later type. The front bearing has a grease nipple but at the impeller end mine has an oil cup, sames as the clutch release bearing but with a slight difference in that whilst the release bearing cup is threaded, the water pump one is a push fit

I’m sure I read that the water pump brass bearing is slightly ‘porous’ so the oil does goes through onto the shaft but the bearing retains some oil to keep the shaft  lubricated.

Service chart indicates the cups should be filled every 250 miles? so don’t overfill/keep filling or yes it could get to the clutch via the release bearing one.