Originally posted by Ray:
MAJOR:

Waterpump (if the car is an early 98, especially). It SHOULD NOT HAVE a black impellar. You can't physically see it without removing it, but see if there is a history of replacing the waterpump, or a receipt with part number. The black ones shatter with hot coolant (get brittle) and overheat your engine. warped heads, etc.



Oh yeah... the 'other' Duratec issue besides the oiling problem.

Supposedly the "white" impeller is the updated one, but also (IIRC) Napa, and maybe a few others, sell a metal impeller pump.

However, the metal impeller pump isn't a 'cure all' since it has a tendancy to leak out of the weep hole... and a few white impeller ones have shattered also.

...But both of those don't have the near 100% failure rate of the original black impeller.

Your symptoms will be overheating engine combined with a 'broken' heater (which is actually just the coolant not being able to get to the heater core).

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