Coolant pump addition to my vegistroke

[AFBLUE]

Originally Posted by CHenry

You are confused. ITs taking water that comes from the water pump, on its way to the heater core and its pumping it through my coolant loop and back - you can't see the return line but it goes to the de gas bottle. The inlet tube is pointing at the engine, the out let is pointing to the rear.

Got ya, I was getting it mixed up with my setup, and crossed in my head which way the pump was pushing. So if your vegi return is in between the cold heater core line and degas bottle, the path of least resistance is to the degas bottle, and not backwards through heater core to the hot side. Probably if anything, you may have lost a little flow through your heater core, but same for me too, Vegi getting heated is more important than me getting heat in the cabin.

[Clay Henry]

Well this little pump did not prove to be a good one. The heat from the coolant warped the inlet and outlet pipes and they started colapsing and leaking...I will contact the people i bought it from and hopefully they will have some insight as to why a "coolant" pump didnt hold up to the hot coolant.
Maybe i jusat got a bad one?

[AFBLUE]

Originally Posted by CHenry

Well this little pump did not prove to be a good one. The heat from the coolant warped the inlet and outlet pipes and they started colapsing and leaking...I will contact the people i bought it from and hopefully they will have some insight as to why a "coolant" pump didnt hold up to the hot coolant.
Maybe i jusat got a bad one?

Ehh I cant say that one would be bad, its probably that all those pumps cant handle the hot side, if you can get another one for free, put it on the cold side.

[Clay Henry]

Originally Posted by AFBLUE

Ehh I cant say that one would be bad, its probably that all those pumps cant handle the hot side, if you can get another one for free, put it on the cold side.

Its made to go on the hot side of a mercedes to the heater core so i can't see how this application is any different? Do mercedes run cooler?

[tubular031]

the couple times I have seen this talked about in other forums they usually say they install them after the loop to pull the coolant rather before the loop pushing. If you call in a warranty on this pump, i would not tell them that you installed it on a truck. they will probably tell you where to go

[Clay Henry]

Originally Posted by tubular031

the couple times I have seen this talked about in other forums they usually say they install them after the loop to pull the coolant rather before the loop pushing. If you call in a warranty on this pump, i would not tell them that you installed it on a truck. they will probably tell you where to go

I cut the plug off to wire it and i will have to explain that... i likely won't get my money back. The pump isn't ruined, if i have to i will try to round out the inllet/outlets with some heat and reinstall it on the cool side and see what happens. The inlets are just a little out of round.

[bobkat]

beer pic...great coolant device.

[greasyF250]

Originally Posted by CHenry

Its made to go on the hot side of a mercedes to the heater core so i can't see how this application is any different? Do mercedes run cooler?

The pump in a Mercedes is in the return line to the water pump so temps would not be any greater than say 140 - 150.

[Clay Henry]

I got a new one from Parsgeek.com and it is a true Bosch pump...it was 51 bucks.
Working great.

[tubular031]

51 bucks? what is the part number? or a link? the one I found on there is $82