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Show " j Watch Your Water Pump : I to Prevent Motor Heat 5 I Of the 16 reasons for motor heating, i. .' f perhaps one of the most obscure and f; I least thought of is the small pip that !' I holds the paddie wheel on the water pump to the shaft. This Is a frequent f 1 reason for engine overheating, and be- !' j cause of its very ohsenreness, is one f I of the reasons for this series of j 1 articles. fY' As everyone knows, the water pump r. j is attached to the water pump shaft. 1 Within this pump Is a paddle wheel I I that assists In circulating the water ' I from the radiator entirely through t... t'l water passage system. A small steel If pin holds this paddle wheel fust to the , I I pump, and many times, after some II , months of usage, this pin becomes II worn or rusted, and shears off as fj smoothly as if cut by a knife. The -I pump at once becomes Inoperative, the fj water docs not circulate and the ter-M ter-M rifle heat, of the engine soon boils f away the water that remains In the f radiator. Here again the heat indl- cator on your car Immediately tells J the story, as the vapor temperature of f the boiling water in the radiator will j warn the motorist, through this Instru-I Instru-I ment, that be must Investigate at once. I or sniror the penalty : a large garage I W1L - |