ETEC water pump gear issues?

Racer220 · Jan 2, 2014

Sold a '11 Freeride this summer that was all updated and ran perfect through the day I put it away for the year. First ride out the new owner says it's overheating after a few miles even in deep snow. Finally took it into a shop and they said it's the gear that drives the water pump. Anyone else ever had this problem on an ETEC or is this an isolated deal? I never had any issues and I put it through about every kind of snow condition there is.

Mach-ster · Jan 2, 2014

Racer220 said:
Sold a '11 Freeride this summer that was all updated and ran perfect through the day I put it away for the year. First ride out the new owner says it's overheating after a few miles even in deep snow. Finally took it into a shop and they said it's the gear that drives the water pump. Anyone else ever had this problem on an ETEC or is this an isolated deal? I never had any issues and I put it through about every kind of snow condition there is.

I personally had (2) waterpumps fail! worm gear stripped, my good friend also had (1) fail, both of these are ptek's however. If you do a search there are others that have had this failure, and of course when this happens you also loose oil pump at same time, requires pulling engine. :face-icon-small-coo

lynxmann · Jan 3, 2014

It can happen yes but as a dealer for 12 years now i have had this happen to 2 sleds so not a frequent failure, the Etec have a separate electrical oil pump so the engine have not lost lubrication.

Racer220 · Jan 3, 2014

Good to know. Thanks for the info.

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