Hmmm 0 well I agree with the others - the pump should have come totally
complete. I did the water pump on my 89 V6 last year and I didn't have to do
anything like that. I would have gone back and raised a fit about it. My
guess is that they are not selling quality parts like that.
Kyle Kozubal wrote:
> Well after 7 hours of working on my truck today trying to get the leaking
> water pump fixed, it is still leaking. Dont ask please why it took 7 hours
> either! :)
> The old water pump was indeed leaking out of the wheep hole and everything,
> including the fan/fan clutch came off very easily. The hard part was
> transferring the stock metal heater pipe from the old one to the new one. I
> finally had to take it to a friends house for him to use his torch on the
> stock water pump to heat it up, I dont see how they think the stock pipe
> will come out otherwise. I tried everything before finally asking him. He
> heated the pump up for about 10 seconds and out came the metal heater pipe.
> This metal pipe has a groove in it where an o-ring goes, which came with the
> new water pump. I put the o ring on and tapped it down into the water pump,
> noting a line I marked to so I knew how far into the pump it had to go. I
> put everything back on, checked the coolant level and fired the truck up,
> only to have a nice leak from this metal heater pipe; coolant is coming from
> where the pipe goes into the pump. It did seem like th o-ring which came
> with the new pump was puny, so I am going to run by the dealer tomorrow and
> see if I can buy this o-ring and hopfully it will be thicker. Any clues how
> how else to seal this heater pipe to the pump?????????? Other than the
> o-ring, is there any thing else that needs to be put on to additionally help
> seal this frigin pipe?? Looks like I am getting a ride to work tomorrow.
> Kyle
> 93 Dakota 4x4 V6
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