Hi All,
First of all - I shouldn't have attempted to replace the aftermarket waterpump since it wasn't having any issues, but that's besides the point. I was working on baselining my rig with replacing all of the old hoses and old crusty coolant with a few flushes. Decided that I should replace the water pump with OEM.
I've put everything back together but it seems that it's leaking at or close to the mating surface ( I'm assuming this is it, since it's coming right off the crank ).
Things that it could possibly be:
1. I put waterpump sealent on the gasket to engine block, I couldn't get the gasket to stay in place when i was mounting it and kept putting holes in the gasket. I bought a few fel-pro ones to put in it's place instead of OEM since I could get them locally and quickly at autozone
2. I've torqued the nuts to 27 ft/lbs but then over torqued them to 40 ft/lbs to see if the leak would go away ( it did not )
3. I've tried to scrape as much of the old paper gasket as much as possible, it didn't seem like there was any left on there but I could be wrong.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated - I know I will probably have to take it apart again and go in and try to rescrape the surface and put on a new gasket, but trying not to think about that right now cause it's a pain in the ass....
First of all - I shouldn't have attempted to replace the aftermarket waterpump since it wasn't having any issues, but that's besides the point. I was working on baselining my rig with replacing all of the old hoses and old crusty coolant with a few flushes. Decided that I should replace the water pump with OEM.
I've put everything back together but it seems that it's leaking at or close to the mating surface ( I'm assuming this is it, since it's coming right off the crank ).
Things that it could possibly be:
1. I put waterpump sealent on the gasket to engine block, I couldn't get the gasket to stay in place when i was mounting it and kept putting holes in the gasket. I bought a few fel-pro ones to put in it's place instead of OEM since I could get them locally and quickly at autozone
2. I've torqued the nuts to 27 ft/lbs but then over torqued them to 40 ft/lbs to see if the leak would go away ( it did not )
3. I've tried to scrape as much of the old paper gasket as much as possible, it didn't seem like there was any left on there but I could be wrong.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated - I know I will probably have to take it apart again and go in and try to rescrape the surface and put on a new gasket, but trying not to think about that right now cause it's a pain in the ass....