Evening all
I have a couple of questions that I hope you can help me with.Yesterday started van to make short trip and got light flashing on temp gauge,drove about half a mile in total.
checked van when i got back and found i had lost all coolant( with help from posts on here found out it looks like water pump.)
Now to my two question.
1 do you think i could have done any serious damage to the engine with the short trip,temp gauge didn't even get a quarter of the way up.
2 how easy is to change the pump for someone like me who has trouble finding which end of a spanner is which.
My van is 1989 with a 1.6td jx engine
thanks in advance.
water pump
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Re: water pump
It depends how long you have been driving around pumping the coolant out. Water pumps rarely let go catastrophically, it will have been losing coolant for a while.
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Re: water pump
Fill it up with water..see if and where it leaks..come back after that.
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Re: water pump
Sorry should have said i can see fulid leaking from the bearing breather hole and there is loads of play in the water pump pully.
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Re: water pump
Are you going to replace the complete pump or just the front [the part with the impeller in it]?
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Re: water pump
No idea at the moment,as i am on nights this week not had chance to have a real good look at it yet.dave friday wrote:Are you going to replace the complete pump or just the front [the part with the impeller in it]?
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Re: water pump
Well you have to remove the alternator and its cradle,then the pipes going to and from the pump...youll have a better idea when you have the new pump in your hands!
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Re: water pump
thanks for all your input,all sorted now.
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Re: water pump
Good,what did you do to fix your water pump problem?
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Re: water pump
Replaced it I should think - only cure for that.
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