My water pump is dead, any advice?

[Dirk Diggler]

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[Fummins]

Bump for updates.

[Fummins]

One more because I have the maturity of a 6 year old.

[stevedmc]

Prestone green coolant is better than that $100 a gallon lifetime coolant that Jay Leno uses.

[Dirk Diggler]

I'm an asian blue man myself. Even has Mitsubishi Mirage listed on the bottle, can't beat that.

[Dirk Diggler]

I just thought of something maybe OP was talking about reassignment surgery when she/he/thwerent/ was talking of water pumps? That's hospital slang for bladder lolol.

[stevedmc]

I'm an asian blue man myself. Even has Mitsubishi Mirage listed on the bottle, can't beat that.

Prestone has “All makes and models” listed on the bottle. Mitsubishi falls under that category.

[Fummins]

I use the blue stuff in the work cars. I've only seen zero failures so far. It's nice that I can put it in car and it tastes great too.

[RavenMirage2015]

Sorry for the crazy late reply everyone. I've been busy with work, quarantine, and other things, but basically the water pump swap went great. I took the belt/pulley off the pump, swapped it out for the new one, and put it all back together. The pump I bought said it didn't include a gasket, but there was a suspiciously gasket-looking rubber ring around the edge. I added a thin line of blue "coolant-safe" gasket maker around the outside edge of the "not-gasket" just in case, and whether or not that was necessary it ran perfectly fine and didn't leak. I have the old pump still and while it looks fine, it grinds when I rotate the impeller so I'm guessing the bearing was shot.

The 4 pulley bolts are 10mm, and I was able to break them all loose by putting two wrenches/sockets on two bolts. For the 4th bolt, I took the other 3 halfway out and braced a wrench between them to get leverage. After taking the pulley off, there's 4 more bolts (one in each corner) holding the water pump in. I can't check right now, but they're either 10mm or 12mm. I did a few flushes with distilled water after swapping the pump, and then refilled with PEAK Asian Coolant (blue version, specifically lists Mirage). It worked perfectly until I replaced my engine last week for unrelated reasons. I'll draft up a post about that right now, though I'm pretty lacking on pictures from the whole process so I'm not sure how useful it'll be.

[Dirk Diggler]

Sorry for the crazy late reply everyone. I've been busy with work, quarantine, and other things, but basically the water pump swap went great. I took the belt/pulley off the pump, swapped it out for the new one, and put it all back together. The pump I bought said it didn't include a gasket, but there was a suspiciously gasket-looking rubber ring around the edge. I added a thin line of blue "coolant-safe" gasket maker around the outside edge of the "not-gasket" just in case, and whether or not that was necessary it ran perfectly fine and didn't leak. I have the old pump still and while it looks fine, it grinds when I rotate the impeller so I'm guessing the bearing was shot.

The 4 pulley bolts are 10mm, and I was able to break them all loose by putting two wrenches/sockets on two bolts. For the 4th bolt, I took the other 3 halfway out and braced a wrench between them to get leverage. After taking the pulley off, there's 4 more bolts (one in each corner) holding the water pump in. I can't check right now, but they're either 10mm or 12mm. I did a few flushes with distilled water after swapping the pump, and then refilled with PEAK Asian Coolant (blue version, specifically lists Mirage). It worked perfectly until I replaced my engine last week for unrelated reasons. I'll draft up a post about that right now, though I'm pretty lacking on pictures from the whole process so I'm not sure how useful it'll be.

Replaced your engine?