My water pump pretty much died today.
Was sitting out in the parking lot waiting for class to start, and I glance down to see my car is OOOOVER heating. I just replaced the radiator yesterday, so being brand new that couldnt be it.

Check the hoses and while peering into the engine bay I cannot see a leak from the hoses. I get to looking under the car and antifreeze is streaming off the bottom of my engine bay...

Thats a fun one to fix... Just for shits and giggles are you sure it was coming from there and not from the overflow. When it gets hot it boils out. Happened atleast to me once. In that case its probably your thermostat.

Na its not the overfill tank. I have been turbo for about a month plus...haha there was no water in the over fill tank to...overflow

so it sucked balls..

and on top of that one way that I know it was something serious is because the car was off and it was leaking perfusly(spl?) yeah
I lost quite abit while i had the car jacked up and I was under it looking around.

two, while the car was running it streamed out faster...

I dont have time or the tools to change out the water pump so I had to take it to somebody to have it fixed. Not cool, but its ever worse if it breaks down and I cant drive it anywhere to get it fixed.

Ok so here is the latest on the water pump.
Perfection tire gets the water pump on and I get the car back the next day. I start the car and it runs like absolute shit.
I get about half a mile down the road and the check engine light kicks on. WTF It says the EGR is bad or something is wrong.

The car idles like a chevy, really rough, and its sucking fuel down like im pushing a v8 under my hood, and my vaccuum (Usually 15) is now reading 10. WTF I take it back and he doesnt even know what the fuck is wrong with it....HE FIXED IT...or gave it back to me in worse condition that what it came in as.

rxr_eclipse and I thought that the timing might be off by a tooth. The current game plan is that I am taking it to an import mechanics shop and having it checked out. if the timing is off I am going to have Perfection refund me the money I had to spend to get the timing adjusted CORRECTLY on the car. If it is the egr....no harm done. but I dont really know anybody where I just moved to so I need a second opinion on what the hell is wrong with my car.

i'm willing to bet its the timing.

Just run by autozone and have them scan codes, if you get a p1390, then 'timing belt has skipped 1 tooth or more'

Save yourself the time. Just bring it back. They are at least a tooth off on the timing belt.

Originally posted by Super20G
Just run by autozone and have them scan codes, if you get a p1390, then 'timing belt has skipped 1 tooth or more'

You wont always get that code.....my 97 didnt when i goofed by a couple teeth after the head gasket.

Terry



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Ok so as I said, I had the pump taken in to have it fixed because it was leaking, well they fixed it but in return my car ran like absolute ass, well I thought it was the egr because that was the code that I was getting. I took it back they said I had to go to a dealership to get a new egr valve. Well after talking to RxR_Eclipse, he said it was timing was off. I took it BACK AGAIN to perfection and they told me to take it to somebody else who knew how to time the belt.

I took it to a small shop north of where I live, and they fixed it, and for 150 dollars in labor costs.

I then in return drove BACK to Perfection tire where I had the original work done on my car.....told them everything you just read. Said here is the bill for having to go to somebody else to have your work cleaned up for you....I want you to pay for my labor costs.