Re: 87 Coupe GT YAHOOOO!!!

["Gary G. Erickson" <erickson@teleport.com>]

Glenn Kaufman wrote:

> There's no need to change the water pump with the timing belt.  I have the
> original water pump in my car (timing chged at 60K).

I have to disagree with this.  If you are going to go to all of the
effort to change the t-belt, change the water pump while you are in
there.  It's only a $26 part and since it's used to tension the t-belt,
they do have problems sealing after a while.

It's a real bummer to do the t-belt, just to have the waterpump start
leaking on you a month afterwards.

If you are doing the work yourself, with new t-belt, waterpump, locktite
and RTV, parts come to under $50.  And if you are paying someone else to
do it, well, I wouldn't want to pay for the job twice just because I
decided to save $26 in the short term.

HTH and my $.02

Gary

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Gary G. Erickson            Member #82 NW Audi Quattro Club
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