Water Pump Replacement?

[blake200]

How hard is a water pump replacement on a is200 2001 SE as mine has started to become a tad loud.

Cheers :)

[Deafluggs]

Hi mate.

1St drain the coolant remove the rad,remove the belts,upper and lower cam belt covers,that will expose the water pump.

Then you can get to the bolts attaching the pump to the engine.

Then t's just a reversal of the procedure.

Make sure you re-fill the system from the resevior and not the rad.

There maybe a simpler way but that's the way i did it.

Good luck.

[blake200]

Okay cheers is it fairly straight forward then no specialist tools? Is it common for the water pump to go on these? had a noise around 1500-2000rpm like a rattle goes when reved but since looking into it its coming from the water pump and also sounds like the noise of some i have seen.

[MärkJ]

Might as well replace the cam belt as well while you've got it apart.

[blake200]

what would a garage normally charge for the belts being changed and the water pump?

[Deafluggs]

Would have thought it would be a couple of hours labour ,new belts and timing belt as mark says might as well change your timing belt at the same time plus the coolant, i reckon about £400 parts n labour.

I personally like getting my hands dirty and i'd do it myself, i mean what we looking at £50 for the pump, cam belt kit £120, new belts £30 and some coolant you can do the job for £200 +.

[Pete Shawn]

I got my water pump replace recently... but it's look like the the old water pump use to have a centre cap on but after i got back the car.... looks like it's not there anymore exposing the the middle sub... is that safe?

[sparkystav]

It should have it back on. But no it's not unsafe. In fact you remove it when fitting a supercharger