Leaking Pump....HELP!!!!

Guitarman0

Guitarman0

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I set up my loop with all barbs etc not leaking and I installed a new pump top of which I am 100% was securely fitted (as I double checked) however, after about 10 minutes of having the system on I realised there was water everywhere!!!! No damage luckily but on inspecting the pump (Laing DDC) the water seems to have come through the PCB area but didn't go through the O-ring. RMA time? Or is there an easy fix for this?

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That's weird. The main part of the pump is an injection moulded effort, there shouldn't be anywhere for water to escape. My best guess is that the bearing isn't mounted securely so water is seeping though there. I'd suggest putting the original top back on and retrying, if it leaks then yeah it's probably rma time.

I've had one leak when the screws weren't done up properly, and I've had another when I did the screws up too tight and cracked some acrylic. Can't win sometimes :(
 
lucky there is no damage im sure its an easy fix like above says about the O-ring good luck!
 
Did you not run an isolated loop test over night?

set the loop up outside the PC on white paper and see if you can locate the problem. Who tight did you fix the barbs? Sometime overtightening can damage the various items.
 
Is this potentially a good reason to keep hold of any old rejected PC parts such as a PSU and motherboard so that you can hook something like this up away from your rig first for a test run before installing it?
 
This really puts me off watercooling. a lot of AIR coolers nowadays do just as good of a job at keeping temps down to the numbers that watercooled system runs at. It isn't really worth the trouble, watercooling does look extremely epic in a windowed case though, and is really the only reason I'd want one. However I live by the crede, "Its what your system performs like that matters", so I am not the tidyest guy in the world when it comes to cables but I do it good enough!
 
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