With all this chatter about water pumps, I just had to
toss in my .02 worth:
Invigorated with the successes of replacing three
Sprite water pumps in a relatively short period of time
(I now fully believe that my cars conspire while
sitting in the drive to "cycle" with similar problems
at the same time, much like I've heard that women in
the same house "cycle" together. Flame on.), I felt
that tackling the pump on my Audi (das 5 cylinder
engine), shouldn't be a problem. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
In their infinite wisdom, those crafty Germans
decided that the water pump should also be a TIMING BELT
TENSIONER ! Yes, in fact, the Audi's water pump is
mounted on an eccentric, so that once it is in, you
replace the timing belt and rotate the pump to take up
the slack, all the while ensuring you have maintained
the proper relationship between all those expensive
valves, and that odd-number of fragile pistons. Which
of course I didn't do, so now the relatively easy job
of replacing the water pump generated the
never-to-be-attempted-at-home task of removing the
head. But that's another story.
Daren "Upon starting I heard such a clatter, that
I pulled off the head to see what's the matter." Stone
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