Porsche 928 ran it's water pump off the back of the timing belt too. The pump would last a long time usually, but often, it was looked at as part of a timing belt job. While it's all a part and we're in there, might as well do it too.
I've done the water pump on an old 2.0 Sunbird. It was a bit of a pain too. Ed 300E 2009/1/8 R A Bennell <b...@mts.net> > Thought this of interest given recent posts about looking at GM vehicles. > > My younger son is an apprentice mechanic. Last evening at dinner, he told > me what he had worked on yesterday. A > 1999 Chevy Cavalier with about 65K miles on it. Leaking water pump on the > 2.4 (or was that a 2.5?) 4 cylinder > engine. > > Well guess what! It is a beast of a job. Sort of like changing a heater fan > in the 115. > > The wizard engineers at GM made it run off of the timing chain. It is on > the back side of the engine near the > bottom under the exhaust manifold. So, in order to change a water pump, one > must dismantle half of the car. He says > that so long as they are in there, they will change out the sprockets, > tensioner and timing chain too, just to be > safe. Probably did not really need all that at 65K miles but the labour > part is expensive so why take chances. Lord > only knows what this will cost the poor owner. That car can't be worth much > more than the repairs will cost. > > Randy > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090108/d3cec734/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
