Hi all. It's my first post here, though I've been using the forums as a very useful resource since the purchase of my 86 cargo van about a month or so ago. I've been picking away at problems and, with the aid of your pictures and writings, I have replaced the high pressure power steering hose, found myself an overdrive gear, replaced the o2 sensor, changes the distributor cap, plug wires and plugs and found out how to read my van's error codes. I was coming into town on the weekend to go salvage a muffler and exhaust pipes when the van overheated causing me to pull off to the side of the road. My coolant was down and I also discovered that the evening before, in a hasty clean up, I hadn't fully secured the radiator cap (Yes, I know, dumb). Hence the coolant loss. So my girlfriend came and brought me some coolant and I started her up. Seemed fine. Ran about the same and I hadn't run it at overheating very long (only so long as to register the problem) and so I took off. Then, stopped at a parking lot to purchase some more fix-up items and coolant, I took off again. This time I started overheating again in about 5 minutes. So I pulled back into the parking lot whereupon the van started leaking coolant profusely. I couldn't tell where from there and eventually got a tow to a place I could look at and work on things. Having removed the fan shroud, fan, and belts I was better able to look at where the water was coming from. Of course I wasn't running it, I just had someone turn the pump while I looked from below. It looks to be coming from somewhere around the water pump itself, though the exact location is hard to tell. I know some of you are probably thinking blown head gasket but nothing so far is pointing to that. The water seems to have some rust in it, but I am attributing that to lack of coolant changes in the past and extra water in the ratio. It doesn't look like oil in the coolant and there is no sign of coolant in the oil. No white smoke, no scent of burning coolant. I've heard some water pumps will do this to signal that the pump is shot. Sound possible? Or a pump gasket? It doesn't seem to be coming out of any hoses or anything, just straight down off the pump. Any other suggestions or leads or experience? I'm just getting to know these beasts a bit. Thanks for any help. All the stuff up on here has been really great.