Thread: How do I know if my water pump is bad?

How many miles? Coolant level is fine? A headgasket leak or intake usually results in low coolant levels which
lead to overheating. Your car does not overheatTo the point of blowing coolant. Yes it's warmer but. Never has any coolant spewing issues so that is some info.

Update:
I looked inside the radiator and everything looks clean. I rinsed/cleaned of the radiator and can see daylight through the slats. I just went ahead and pulled the water pump off to look at it and it's perfectly fine. Solid bearing, fins, everything looked fine.

@Cavell: The car has approx 150,000 miles on it. Coolant level is fine. I don't have any leaks. I changed those to plastic elbows that are notorious for breaking near the alternator last year after they failed catastrophically so those should be fine. It hasn't overheated to the point of spewing coolant yet and it hasn't actually gone in the red, but it's come close. Both my fans come on and work like they are supposed to. I looked in the oil filler to see if it was getting foamy from a blown head gasket and it was clean.

The only thing I haven't done is official do a pressure check (do I need to if I'm not leaking?). I'm going to try doing what Scottydogg recommended with the radiator and see if fluid is flowing freely.

Any other ideas?