Date:         Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:56:57 -0400
Reply-To:     "Carrington, Tom" <TCarrington@ReliTech.com>
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From:         "Carrington, Tom" <TCarrington@ReliTech.com>
Subject:      Re: Bentley says nada about the water pump ?!
Comments: To: "k1cajun@pipeline.com" <k1cajun@pipeline.com>
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Dave:
Take a look at http://volksweb.relitech.com/19wpump.htm to see the setup on
the 1.9L

I'm afraid I don't have any experience on how different the 2.1L is, maybe
someone else will step up the plate.

Take care,
TomC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave L [mailto:k1cajun@pipeline.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 2:42 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Bentley says nada about the water pump ?!
>
>
> The other day, when my buddy who's a commercial AC guy is helping me
> search for an AC leak, he comments on the strange growl coming from
> the engine.  I hadn't heard it until that day either.  But lately, I
> had been smelling coolant and figuring, oh boy, head gasket job coming
> up.  But then last night, when I smelled it, I looked under to see if
> I could see the leak.  Well it's dripping a good bit from the water
> pump.  AC's going to wait.
>
> Checked the Bentley in preparation, I can't find anything about the
> R&R procedure for a water pump, just a picture of it in an exploded
> diagram of the cooling system.  Now I remember when I did the exhaust
> on my 89, that it's pretty tight in there.  So I checked the archives.
> Best I came up with was talk of it being a 4 hour job.  Good, that
> tells me that the engine can stay in.  But though I can see which
> bolts must be undone, I wonder if there's any order parts should be
> removed to make the job easier.  Or parts that need to come off for
> those other parts to come off ?
>
> Also, I wonder if the intermittent growl could mean that it's grinding
> on the block.  I remember some posts about the water pump eating into
> the block and having to fix it with JB Weld.  If the gauges are small,
> does it still need JB Weld ?
>