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Vin # 1falp66l2tk137212
96 contour lx, 90,000 miles water pump replaced, and now in the shop for a possiable blown head gasket or cracked head!
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Terry- The Bat pump is rated at about 2000 hours of life IIRC. What is your experience with running electric. The only thing preventing me from doing this is having to replace the electric pump every 10,000 mile or so. Any suggestions please.
98 EO #587
Currently Dirt Jumping
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1995 Ford Contour LX V6
Replaced water pump November 1999, car had 106,000 miles on it.
Haven't had a problem since then.
Vin #1FALP66L1SKI66117
1995 Contour LX
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Mine went two weeks ago. 170,000 km. Nothing left of it.
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My '97 pump just blew on Thursday May 9, 72,000 miles.
Impeller parts retrieved when pump removed from housing are guestimated to total 80%. Whole pieces sized; 40%,20%,10%,5%, crumbs 5% - MIA 20%. Have posted separately re assistance in locating/flushing MIA. Car currently O-O-O (out-of-service) in driveway awaiting dry weather, and owner's enthusiasm for instalation task, to return.
VIN to be added via edit.
Edit: VIN 1FALP66L0VK148924
Edit May 19/02: Further 15% chunk found between cone and housing, total of 95% recovered. Metal pump now installed.
98 Mystique LS v6 atx 110,000km
97 Contour LX v6 atx 125,000km
stock CD on LS, cass on LX
spoiler, tinted windows on LS only
4 wheel discs on LX only
All other available options on both
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My '95 Contour SE ATX's waterpump went at 55,200 miles. Luckily, I noticed the temperature rising and didn't drive it until I replaced the waterpump. The impeller on the original waterpump was almost completely cracked in half and one fin was just about to crack off too. Because of the crack, the impeller no longer spun with the pulley.
Count me in as well. E-mail me at tclemente@comcast.net
Thanks for taking some action.
'95 Ford Contour SE ATX...primarily the wife's car
'86 Ford Mustang LX notch 5.0 5-speed...12 second project
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Good luck man, but I don't think you will get much results, If your car over heats why don't people stop!! Common sense tells you that you should not keep driving with a motor that is over heated. I don't have a water pump failure by the way and have right at 80K miles.
But good luck anyway
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CTA open air element
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Originally posted by jaxter:
well...maybe the engineer that saved a few pennies on the old Ford ignition switches designed cheaper-to-manuf' WP for our 95-98's. Guess he didn't have ProEngineer software, ignored torture-testing, or disbelieves/ignores all the failures that we experience. Anyway, it should be a cheap-part recall/TSB, but heels are dragged again (Exploder anyone?), warranties expire fast, engines will die consequently. Can anyone believe a cheap but very critical part like this is overlooked? Overall, the pre-99 SVT now has had the reliability of a Yugo (due to the w/pump) at the (new at the time) price of a BMW, without decent body panels or stereo (don't get me started on that, it hardly covers up all the squeaks in the cabin). Very nice. At least (don't laugh) it can still get a decent trade-in price before the w/p dies! BAT has an elec pump, but details are hazy. Sounds like a no-brainer to me. I wish Ford would reimburse me for the preventive measure, but they are tied up with 2 million ig sw recalls rt now, and I'm out of warranty anyway. Curses on that designer of the crud pump. Oh, BTW, My boss drives a 2002 BMW330 XI that has had 2 motor replacments as of 20K miles. So much for your theory on good cars
98.5 CSVT
CTA open air element
Otherwise stock
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ive got a 98 Contour GL 2.5 L Im thining of replacing my pump just for the reasons listed above but if ford should really consider a recall and soak it up if its this frequent Ford wont even install a metal impellar pump for me because ots no to their specs 
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Jaxter, you are off base.Component engineers have to work to a budget.It's the 'bean counters' that dictate the level of engineering in vehicle systems, if it were up to the engineers most would have 'Rolls-Royce' level parts but would soon be out of a job!!!!!! 
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