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yer would you believe i was just sitting at the control light waiting for it to go green to start track session and bang! Engine was only idling thank F#$5.

Radiator got a bit of a touch up from the fan and engine got a bit hot but not to bad would hate to think what would have happened at 8000 rpm?

I put it in and before you say it i have been working on engines for the last 22 years and this is a simple task. Try putting an oil pump or an oil cooling nozzle into a Cummins KTA 50G3 which are both the definition of bloody near impossible.

The pump had already done some track time with no problem then bang

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Its either an indian cheapy with casting issues (look for flaws, i cant see any in the pic though) or the belts were to tight. I have seen this happen to those copy SR20 sumps getting around small tap on a ripple strip and they literally fall off.

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yer big old smelly, nasty deisels. I am sure belt was not to tight still i guess that would be a reason for this happening but how tight must it have been to break that amount of cast alloy. And would that be possible with 1 little tensioning bolt.

Pump was brand new when i put in on and i put the few kms on it without any issue, so it was never removed from any other engine. Thinking a N1 will now be put on as getting sick of removing cam belt etc to put pump in place only changed the last one as i put new cam belt on and thought i better do the right thing

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The water pump in my GTR did exactly the same thing. The belt was just a little too tight and after a few weeks when I let her rip, it snapped and the pump was held on by only a small piece of metal.

Like other have said,

If it's not that then it's just a cheap pump perhaps with bad manufactering...

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Sounds like you got away with it ok though.

This happened to me a while back in my r33 - threw the fan into the radiator at about 5000rpm.

The fan had a few chunks missing from the blades and the radiator was cactus!

We put it down to a fault/hairline crack in the water pump itself, as the belts were at correct tension.

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