Water Pumps Work

City Takes Over Flood Surveillance

"We certainly have come to, both on a personal level and a professional level, appreciate the work that the Guard did,” said Marty Grate with Omaha Public Works. “But we think that we can provide safety for the community and get those services done in a different way."

One group will be going up and down the levees on foot and on carts to look for any problems. A security firm will help keep observers away from unsafe areas and fast moving water.

The National Guard has been monitoring hundreds of different issues in the past few months along the Omaha side of the Missouri River, from things like boils to rodent holes. About 700 areas are being marked with flags so the city knows exactly what needs to be fixed and maintained.

“A little problem can turn into a big one when you’ve got this much water on the levee,” said Gordon Anderson with Omaha Public Works.

With water flow decreasing from Gavins Point Dam, the city appreciates every inch the river falls but warns the community not to assume we’re out of the water just yet.

“We need to keep our guard up. We’re headed in a good direction, but these levees are very saturated and the weather could change on us,” Grate said. “So we don’t want to sound an ‘all clear.’”

93 pumps are still online for any seepage still coming through. The city says it’ll be very busy for the next several months to clean up debris when the water goes down. At that point, they can find out how much damage was done to the levees.

The GTM Supercar Build Log » Blog Archive » Coolant Line Ruptured ...

Last week while cruising some back-roads in the GTM I started to smell coolant. Not the greatest smell when you are out in the  middle-of-nowhere and it’s blazing out. I came back into town keeping a close eye on the coolant temp and temps were still fine, so I took it out on some more back-roads with temps still fine, coolant still stinking, and eventually got it back home and on the lift. Suspicions were confirmed when I saw that the GTM had created a slow drip of coolant seeping through the underbody aluminum under the engine.

I took the underbody panel off and did not see anything out of the ordinary and assumed that the previously mentioned super slow coolant leak I had at the thermostat/steel hose connection was just seeping again. I then noticed some dirt on the water pump-to-radiator steel hose that runs in front of the balancer. Upon wiping the ‘dirt’ off I was sprayed in the face with coolant. Nice! Apparently the steel hose had chafed on the balancer somehow and it created a pinhole in the hose wall. Fortunately, I had dropped in some ’stop leak’ tablets into the coolant last week and that stuff clogged up the hole (hence the ‘dirt’ on the hose). I stopped the leak with some strategically applied paper towel and went to the local auto-parts store the next day and ordered new hoses to replace FFR’s supplied steel corrugated hosing. I ended up picking up Gates molded coolant hoses, part #’s 20827 and 20893, as per some recommendations from the forum.

To get started, I removed the interior engine cover and pulled the rest of the underbody aluminum off (tunnel pieces, at least). I started on the thermostat hose first and loosened up the 1.25″ hardline that goes to the t-stat steel hose. After draining what coolant I could from this side (about 2 gallons) I pulled the hose off of the t-stat and connected the Gates hose (20827). This Gates hose is a 1.5″ hose so this meant that it would not fit the 1.25″ hardline without an adapter. I mocked up the connection to the hardline and set to work on the water pump hose. This side dumped another 2 gallons of coolant, and then I disconnected the steel hose from the water pump. The Gates hose for the water pump (20893) is a 1.25″ hose, so it fit the water pump fine, but of course would not fit the 1.5″ hardline that it had previously connected with via the steel hose+adapter. As a result, I consulted with the forum again and decided to swap the hardlines side to side (not changing any connection paths, simply swapping the 1.5″ hardline with the 1.25″ line). This allowed the Gates hoses to fit up perfectly – 1.25″ from water pump to hardline, and 1.5″ from t-stat to hardline. No adapters, four less points of leakage/potential failure. The Gates water pump hose works quite a bit nicer than the corrugated hose as it clears the frame member in front of the motor, eliminating any possibility of it chafing on the balancer again.

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