Jegs/Summit electric water pump

[cycomiko]

Has anyone tried one? Can't get the well know brand now. It's for my daily. Last night on my way to work my temp almost spiked so quick. There is a grinding noise also. I figured the coupler or pump bearing is gone. I could only drive a mile before redline from cold

[The_Bishop]

LT1? LS1?

For a driver, go quality mechanical. Electric won't flow as well as a good quality mechanical, and a mechanical will at least give you some warning when it's crapping the bed, electric just stops working.

[cycomiko]

Lt1 sorry. If it turns out that my mechanical pump failed. It failed suddenly with no warning either. I figured the electric pump gets rid of the weeping issues onto the opti.

[LTb1ow]

Lt1 sorry. If it turns out that my mechanical pump failed. It failed suddenly with no warning either. I figured the electric pump gets rid of the weeping issues onto the opti.

You can thread/tap the weep hole then run a drip line down past opti.

For a pure DD, I would stick with a good OEM mech waterpump.

[ThoR294]

For a pure DD, I would stick with a good OEM mech waterpump.

+1 to this

[cycomiko]

It was the splines on the back of the pump. The coupler still works. Strange but the splines in the pump were the only work parts. I wonder what cause it to wear like that. Maybe the pump locked up and one point..the more I think about it the electric might be better. Just for the non coupler

[BonzoHansen]

so that one lasted how many years, and how many miles, and you think complicating it is better? BTDT, put the right one in.

[cycomiko]

4 yrs...,..

[LTb1ow]

If you can wire well, and are comfortable with the schematics of the car, then go EWP.

Just be aware you are giving the car a lot more failure points pending how skilled you are.

[sweetbmxrider]

Eh, I’d go electric. Get a wiring harness if you aren’t comfortable with doing that. The epump is easy to swap when it fails. Summit usually rebrands their **** so chances are it’s a car unit.

[sweetbmxrider]

Csr is available on eBay

[cycomiko]

I'm curious to why just the splines on the wp are chewed up. I guess it froze up and then broke free? Strange. I'll probably end up going mechanical since I can just get back on the road quicker this time. I don't have a press and not 💯 comfortable wiring the relay kit to the electrical unit.

[sweetbmxrider]

The water pump seized and I'm sure the splines are designed to be sacrificial so you can still reuse the collar.