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Old Oct 14, 2010 | 11:10 PM
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Sorry no I don't, the best I can do is show you the insides of a water pump( it's not a dodge one). Can you please tell us which hose is collapsing is it the upper or lower one. Just to help the upper hose goes to the intake manifold and the lower hose goes to the water pump.

dhvaughan's giving you all the right info and test's follow his info
 

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Old Oct 14, 2010 | 11:13 PM
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TO dhvaughan; we tried this and the water would not come out from the top hose
 
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Old Oct 14, 2010 | 11:54 PM
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Thanks a lot Merc
 
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Old Oct 15, 2010 | 11:23 AM
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Well to test the water pump the old school way is to remove the lower rad hose from the pump, if you can stick a long blade screw driver in the hole and see if you can stop the pump from turning, if you can then the pump is good if you can't stop it the pump is shot. the best way is to just r&r the pump and inspect it.

These trucks are bad for vapor locks in the cooling system after you work on it,do a search for burbing the cooling system
 
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Old Oct 15, 2010 | 09:48 PM
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will do merc, thanks a whole lot, very helpful
 
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Old Oct 17, 2010 | 11:21 PM
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Gotcha dhvaughan, will do that test, been out the whole weekend, tomorrow morning I will get to work on that, thanks everyone for the answers, very helpful!
 
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