Think my Water Pump was bad?? :PICS:
 

Decided to get off my ass and replaced the water pump. I ordered the GMP one through summit and a summit cap and rotor for the opti and it came in thursday. I thought the pump was leaking out of the weephole, I was a tad wrong.

EDIT: I didnt pull that bearing cover off, it was still hanging on the shaft on the front of the motor. I didnt know what it was till i flipped the pump over and noticed the missing bearings....

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Did you change them nasty old OE hoses too???

Ummmm ... yyyeeeeaaaaaaa

::runs out to store to get hoses::

actually no i didnt, none leak yet and im on a tight budet. I am trying to get al my vehicles fixed of any problems that have ben building up. In any case soon illg et all new hoses. they are a easy change.....

they might appear to be fine and not leak then explode with you're crusing on the highway at 60mph....true story.

Ive had origonal hoses on all my cars (88 and 92) and have never had a problem with them. No need to waste money on hoses when theres nothing wrong with whats on there .

Ugh...please dont say that.
Rubber parts need to be changed, no way around it. I understand if there are financial problems, but if this is your daily...start gathering coins.

Yeah!

What's the old sayig, 'an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure'?

Um, sure!! Ill use that at work today!
Belts, Hoses and Tires, no more then 5 years on any of them.

if it's not broken, dont fix it

Yeah, MANY people have that mentality.
Problem is, when it breaks, it breaks bad....and then its MY fault when I tell people how much it will take to fix it.
"BUT IT WASN'T GRINDING YESTERDAY!?!?!"
No, your right...Im sure the caliper piston wasnt grinding on the rotor yesterday...that was the backing plate of the brake pad.

that shouldnt be applied to rubber parts, u know rubber wear out pretty quick, ehh? going from really hot to cool to cold isnt really good for any kind of material. do you ever chage your tires or you just drive on your rims too?

yea speaking of changine hoses and such when i step on the brake i hear creaking... its scaring me :lol:

according to some people in this thread you should only concern yourself with that when you car quits stoping. :lol:

i forgot to add that i kept extra belts, hoses, duct tape, cap, rotor, spark plugs, all fluids and a good set of hand tools in my truck incase i break down..

duck tape FTW, ive "repaired" rad. houses with duct tape before :lol:

If you would just put them in, you wouldn't break down. :lol:

Exactly. Thats like saying "I have a 400hp engine in the garage just in case my stock 120hp LG4 goes to ****."

funny you should say that... in my case I actually do. lol

Wow, guess I should head out to the store since everyone here knows everything about my car. How far I drive it, how often I drive it. Why I have no cash right now, how many other projects I got going on. The time I have to do all this.

I posted a thread, (in the wrong forum accidentally also) showing how bad the damn thing was leaking and I FINALLY got the spare cash and time to get that swapped. GOD FORBID I forgot to buy the damn hoses at that time. Conisidering I drive the car literally not even 2 hours a week and less then 2 miles from my house, I don't think its a case of Dire emergency right now.

Now this isn't aimed at everone in this thread...:)

remove the tampon from buttocks and life will be good again.

No one is telling you to do anything. Like I say at work, in the end its your car.

like always say do it right the first time.

Sorry, I guess I started this. I didn’t mean for you to get upset…I was just busting balls.

I know you were, I even made a joke about it when you typed that. And then it turned into a 20 page argument from everyone with highly opinionated statements that I didn't do it right, I should have done this yada yada yada. I honestly don't care really. In the end it is MY car and I think I know it better then anyone else here.

Its all good though...... be well!