hey all,
in a few w.e's ill be pulling the front of me engine apart to replace a water pump gasket, which isnt sealing and slowly weeping coolant out. no, its not weeping from the "weep hole" but from the gasket surface its self.
the water pump was done at 160xxx and is now on 190xxx, would you replace it or just new gasket and reuse pump?
while im there im going to put a "genuine" thermostat in, i put a new thermostat in prob around the same time as the water pump but it has been gay (sometimes becoming stuck open, not reaching running temp) for the past 15 thou. now coming into winter its not even heating up....in summer it still got to temp.
ill also put a new temp sensor in, because its prob 15 yrs old and i want to eliminate as many thing going wrong as i can.
2 of the hoses were done at 160xxx and the 3rd was done 10k ago, should i worry about them?
coolant is ok, always keeping an eye on it (almost daily, to check level is ok) and its not that old. radiator cap is reasonable new 15k, rad was roded and flushed at 160xxx.
timing belt is only 10k old, so will reuse that. i should of done ^^^^ then, but i tighten up the bolts hoping that would fix the issue. it DIDNT
doing all this should fix my issue of coolant going into the overflow bottle and not returning, im pretty sure the water pump gasket leak is the culprit because it is allowing air to enter the system therefor not being a sealed system and not having the pressure to make the coolant from the overflow tank to return back into the radiator. opinions????
thanks in advanced.
Mitch
