so i replaced the pump this weekend and it was a bitch... now my radiator is leaking from a spot in the fins towards driver side bottom!!!!!!!!!!! can it be patched?
water pump hell
- Thread starter Barlow
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Shouldn't have been too bad. Drain the radiator, remove the fan and shroud, remove the harmonic balancer, disconnect the lower radiator hose from the pump, 7 nuts and bots gets the pump out, 4 more get the pump out of the housing, then repeat in reverse. With electric fans and a SoCal balancer mine was even easier a couple weeks ago.
A radiator shop should be able to fix the radiator. Some braze it and others use and epoxy. Unfortunately, they often want you to remove the radiator.