Water Pump Blues

The coupe has been laid up for six weeks or so in need of a water pump. Here's a lesson: don't buy a NOS pump, get your old one rebuilt instead. When mine sprang a leak around the seal, I bought a NOS one. It turned out to have a bad bearing and made a hellacious noise after I installed it (hint: don't replace the coolant until you are sure the pump is good!).

Figuring that was a fluke, I got a 2nd NOS pump and it had the same problem. Gave up after than and sent my pump to Arthur Gould in NY to be rebuilt. I hope to have it back tomorrow and get in at least one more day of coupe driving before the snow flies (predicted for this Sunday).