That's exactly it, never in my wildest imagination did I think it was the water pump. It sounded just like something in the valvetrain went, a roller rocker, a pushrod, something bad. The car even started running badly, I guess from trying to turn the water pump. It even cranked slow when I started it to drive it on the trailer.

That is two of these exact same pumps that have blown in a very short period of time. When the gasket blew out of the bottom of the one in Daytona (it was the gasket between the pump and plate on the back, the one you don't ever have to touch) it blew back in my face and I was blinded temporarily and luckily got off the road.

I am going to move up the ladder at Summit to someone in charge of Customer Service. One I can understand, but two is way out of line.

Don