Dear scotty and community,
I have a 2006 honda CR-V. It is a 4 cylinder. Automatic transmission with 121,000 miles on it. I wanted to post this here incase anyone else has run into this problem. A family member of mine called and said their car is leaking fluid everywhere and the steering wheel is hard to move. So they bring it to me and notice the powering pump was leaking a lot at the bottom base where the two housings meet each other. I thought that was weird for it to leak like that. I was looking over the pump and noticed one of the bolts that holds both housings together. It was only a thread or two from being finger tight. The pump seemed to OEM but also seems it was replaced not that long ago. He bought it 6 months ago. The place that did the inspection only said he needed a coolant hose. I told him maybe they left it loose so he can back but he told me it is a well respected shop. So its strang how this happened. I don't know how to add a picture here so everyone can see. Maybe I can email it to scotty so he can see it.
Well yeah people often do crappy work. If the bolt was actually loose and it was vibrating around, of course that could ruin the seal on the pump and make it leak. But more often what happens is those rebuild pumps are garbage and they just leak because they didn't fix them right. But you could always tighten the bolt up and pray the leak goes away and it was cuz it was shaking around and now it isn't. I do have to say though I am not a fan of rebuilt pumps
I don't know how to add a picture
read the forum guide. It's the 1st link on our front page.
Same as the last time we explained it to you ...
https://carkiller.com/scottykilmer/qa/smoke-and-rubber-buring-during-heater-is-on/
