Dear e30 gods, i seek your infinite wisdom. a few days ago i drove through a really bad rainstorm, after that my car started to idle really rough (would stall if i didnt give it gas) on cold starts. (it almost sounded like a vacuum leak) but once it warmed up it idled and drove fine. i left it alone for a few days and after that it started fine, no rough idle on cold starts anymore but one of the belts started to squeal a little and there was a slight audible grinding noise like when a bearing is going out.

Fast forward 3 days, Today i was on the freeway and the temp started to climb fast so i pulled over and there was coolant spraying everywhere from what looked like the water pump but couldnt see since it was covered by the distributer and there was alot of steam. after a quick inspection i didnt see any ruptured hoses and coolant was a high pressure spray not pouring out. water pump seems like obvious culprit but i just replaced it like 2 years ago. could it have failed already? maybe the gasket? havent really got a good look since this just happened today and i had it towed. just need to know what to look for, if there is anything else that could cause the water pump/ gasket to fail.

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Also found metal shavings the the bottom near the crank

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and as promised. boobies
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