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Hello all, i am having the lower front panel renewed on my 1983 devon pop-top 1.9 wbx and the rad has been damaged in the process at the garage. The upshot is the rad is being changed for a new one and shoud be back tomorrow. I have a new water pump still in the box which i picked up cheap on ebay some months ago and now i am thinking of changing the water pump as a preventative measure. The van has never had any cooling problems and never rises much over the first third and the old pump never made any noise, should i leave well alone. How hard is it, i was a plumber for 18 years and was thinking its only pipes. What do you think?

I changed ours (2.1 DJ) on Sunday the bearings were noisy but the pump wasn't leaking (yet), and that took 2 hours to change and 15 minutes to refill. Bearing in mind that our engine was fitted 2 years ago, nearly to the day and everything was easily undone.

If your's isn't noisy or leaking I'd leave it alone.

Ian

I did mine on my 1.9dg when it started a small leak. Never done one before but followed the haynes. Took me half a day from start to finish including filling and bleeding the system. Everything was seized god knows when owt had been touched last. Not too bad a job really. Change the thermostat whilst you're at it.

I'm thinking how often do you change the coolant?
with the system empty it makes sense

Thanks for input everyone, the mechanic has recharged the system and bled the system. All is quite and working well, so i shall wait for now.