To Stag or Not To Stag

People like you kill-file me, in other words big headed idiots who spout on about what they are clueless about whilst their egos won't allow them to admit that they are wrong when shown up to be wrong...

Lets just remind ourselves of what you did say;

There is a "tell-tale" hole in the casting, I *think* to the rear of the pump body. If coolant is leaking here, it will be visible in the valley area and means the pump gland seals are about to fail. Don't confuse this with leaking inlet manifold gaskets which also cause coolant to be visible in the valley though.

"If coolant is leaking here, it will be visible in the valley area and *means* the pump gland seals are about to fail." - looks to me that you have shown yourself up as an out-and-out liar...

Whilst I have 30 years as a *motor engineer*, doing my aprentership in an ex Triumph dealer - for all we know you could be a toilet paper engineer...

it's painfully obvious that to find a leak you must use your eyes

The only idea you mentioned was to look in the valley, heck if there was no colour to the coolant the water *could* even have come from the car going through floor water! It was I who suggested drying the area and then pressure testing and looking - not you or your side-kick.

If the system

PLONK!

That says far more about you, as a person of integrity and knowledge, than it does me!