Coolant leak

[little.legs]

Well I took my van for its MOT today and it passed. Woo hoo.

However, after the test the tester turned the engine off and water could be seen dripping underneath. It dripped down off the oil filter and looks like its coming from the base of the left hand pulley as you look in the engine bay. I assume this is the water pump. Is there a seal in there or is it likely to need a new water pump. Mr haynes is not very helpful in this regard.
Cheers
Jamie

[R0B]

stick a bottle of k-seal in it.that stuff has magical properties...

[little.legs]

I would but i'm off to europe in it in july & dont wanna take the risk of having to get recovered home

[Aidan]

in that case fit a new pump and belt you know it's the only thing to do

[little.legs]

yep you're right - new pump etc it is then....)

[aec]

Exactly the same thing happened to me last week! Van in for MOT, fingers crossed, passed but tester mentioned he could see water dripping from the bottom of the oil filter

I'm halfway through the job, picking up a new pump from GSF tomorrow hopefully. - anyone know if the gsf pumps come with a new sealing ring or will I have to find one of them elsewhere?

Also decided it was a good time to sort out my very dodgy looking metal radiator pipes! Apart from the last couple of feet they look great so I've cut out the bad bit to replace with metre lengths of 32mm rubber hose.