This morning I noticed a large puddle of coolant fluid under the engine bay on my 90' Camry. After some thorough searching I found it to be coming from an 8mm hole on the front of the water pump (next to the gasket). From searching through this newsgroup I assume this is the weep hole and it's time for a Water Pump replacement. This seems very coincedental to me because I just flushed the coolant system and refilled it with the green stuff the day before. My question is this... Could there be any link between me flushing the system and this leak occuring, it's only had plain water for quite a while so could it be the first use of green coolant fluid thats done it ? Referring to the follonwing post it seems I'm not alone.
From: Jason James ( snipped-for-privacy@byplane.com) Subject: Re: Mysterious Coolant Leak Location -- V6 Camry
Any suggestions would be great, although the bottom line is probably a new water pump I don't want it happening again.
Cheers, Phil