Tsg
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Hello Land Rover-its!
I am wondering if you dear people of the internet can help with a drama I'm have with fitting a water pump.
Things to note,
1:dispite only being 31, I think forums, facebook and most other social media things of the internet suck, so I tend to use google or just guess when I don't know how to do something ( with the water pump this hasn't helped so far, hence this, my first post on an Internet forum....ever!)
2: I should probably not own spanners... (a HGV mechanic once called me a menace to machinery?)
3: I cannot (or are to incompetent to) find this RAVE manual.
4: I have searched google and read the posts on different forums, but none have even mentioned the part I can't get my head around.
Here goes: 2 months back, 'er in doors noticed water leaking under her freelander. It looked to be the thermostat housing so i put a new one in, though I lost the "coolant rail o-ring" which was ordered and she had that fitted by a garage, ( why she couldn't get them to do the whole thing in the first place is a mistery)
Anyway on Wednesday just gone she returned home from work complaining the heating wasn't working in the car.... yes you guessed it! Another coolant leak. Though this one seemed to be a few mm closer to the engine then the first leak. I took the car to the same garage that fitted the o-ring, they said that it is the water pump, and that it will cost £700 to fix, but they don't want to do it, because it looks like a ball-ache.
Against her better judgement she has tasked me to do it. Today's "session" saw the water pump finally free from the engine and now this is where I'm confused.
I went to remove the old pump gasket and found what looks like a cross between a gasket and the plate that sits in between the engine and bell housing on MY car. It seems to be firmy intent on staying in place on the right hand side of it,though the left hand side is free. On closer inspection it could actually be bolted down on the right and/or be the same thing that's in between the engine and power steering pump.
My question is, when people have changed their water pumps before, have they left that plate/gasket alone or have they persisted in getting it of and using a new gasket? As I can't find any mention of it, in any of the post/ write ups that I have read on the forums.It appears to be metal and feels like it has a small crease in the bottom of it from where I removed to pump, I would be worried that crease would be enough to make leak.
Any thoughts on this matter would be gratefully received. I know that this post has been quite rambling but i have tried to let you guys know where I'm at in the task as well as inform you that I have no idea what I'm doing but 2 months ago had the thermostat housing off which isnt that different to what I'm trying to do now. I will try to ask other sites too someone must know lol
Oh it's a '55 plate TD4 if that helps at all.
Thanks for your time
Tom
I am wondering if you dear people of the internet can help with a drama I'm have with fitting a water pump.
Things to note,
1:dispite only being 31, I think forums, facebook and most other social media things of the internet suck, so I tend to use google or just guess when I don't know how to do something ( with the water pump this hasn't helped so far, hence this, my first post on an Internet forum....ever!)
2: I should probably not own spanners... (a HGV mechanic once called me a menace to machinery?)
3: I cannot (or are to incompetent to) find this RAVE manual.
4: I have searched google and read the posts on different forums, but none have even mentioned the part I can't get my head around.
Here goes: 2 months back, 'er in doors noticed water leaking under her freelander. It looked to be the thermostat housing so i put a new one in, though I lost the "coolant rail o-ring" which was ordered and she had that fitted by a garage, ( why she couldn't get them to do the whole thing in the first place is a mistery)
Anyway on Wednesday just gone she returned home from work complaining the heating wasn't working in the car.... yes you guessed it! Another coolant leak. Though this one seemed to be a few mm closer to the engine then the first leak. I took the car to the same garage that fitted the o-ring, they said that it is the water pump, and that it will cost £700 to fix, but they don't want to do it, because it looks like a ball-ache.
Against her better judgement she has tasked me to do it. Today's "session" saw the water pump finally free from the engine and now this is where I'm confused.
I went to remove the old pump gasket and found what looks like a cross between a gasket and the plate that sits in between the engine and bell housing on MY car. It seems to be firmy intent on staying in place on the right hand side of it,though the left hand side is free. On closer inspection it could actually be bolted down on the right and/or be the same thing that's in between the engine and power steering pump.
My question is, when people have changed their water pumps before, have they left that plate/gasket alone or have they persisted in getting it of and using a new gasket? As I can't find any mention of it, in any of the post/ write ups that I have read on the forums.It appears to be metal and feels like it has a small crease in the bottom of it from where I removed to pump, I would be worried that crease would be enough to make leak.
Any thoughts on this matter would be gratefully received. I know that this post has been quite rambling but i have tried to let you guys know where I'm at in the task as well as inform you that I have no idea what I'm doing but 2 months ago had the thermostat housing off which isnt that different to what I'm trying to do now. I will try to ask other sites too someone must know lol
Oh it's a '55 plate TD4 if that helps at all.
Thanks for your time
Tom
