Thread: 1993 Discovery v8i Water pump

Originally Posted by Frontier1

Thanks Jeff, Mike and Frank.

Yeah, my friends a bit hard up for dosh at the mo', so after I scared him with the $276 + freight + gst, I thought for a sec' and decided I would try and see if I couldn't fix it a bit cheaper for him. That's what mates are for right? Well that, free food, grog, introducing your wife's girlfriends to 'em, etc, etc

Anyway, I'm going to give it a go and pull off the unit and see how bad it is. I know it can't be good since at the end of a 5k trip, he has to refill his water again. It's weird though, as a few days earlier it was all fine. I would have half expected a seal like this to go slowly over a period of time not all in one go.

I'll press out the seal as suggested, check all surfaces and if there are any particular corroded spots, get them alloy welded.

Might even do a few pics on this since I haven't seen a repair/service tutorial on the site or anywhere else for that matter.

Does anyone happen to have a schematic or detailed internal diagram of this pump?

Cheers, Pete'

Have you priced an aftermarket pump, I just bought an aftermarket pump for my wifes Ford Taurus V6, $500+ from Ford, $125 aftermarket, with drive pulley and cast stainless steel impeller, the Ford pump had a plastic impeller (which broke into 3 pieces in the old pump) and the new pump had no drive pulley, I would have had to pull off the old pulley and press onto the new pump, check around for prices, if the pump needs replacing, Reagrds Frank.

H Frank,

Thanks for the aftermarket idea. Got hold of Garmax and they have a replacment unit for $144 all inclusive, a good saving from the approx. $330 that it was going to cost me.

Tombie, I agree that repairs are never as good as new. I'll still see what can be done with the old unit and see what it would have taken to fix (if at all).

Cheers,

Pete'