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Originally Posted by Entropy
Had it been leaking for a while? Usually when the bearing starts to go, it starts weeping and leaving puddles.
It looks like the bearing seized, the impellar came apart and tore out the housing with it. I've looked at a lot of bad small block water pumps in my day, but I never saw anything like that.
Just damn.
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Bearings are still smooth. No warning whatsoever, it just exploded with a huge cloud of steam.
I had just replaced the fan clutch, so I think it might have been weakened by the harmonics from the old fan clutch squealing for many years.
I have a GM pump with a stronger casting (gussets cast radially around the area where this one failed) to replace it with. Hopefully that will solve the problem.
