I'll let you know the mpg when I next fill up
Is your Fuelly working properly Graeme? That's only about 12mpg to my reckoning?
New water pump arrived and went on without a hitch, just wiped the gasket with some grease, on and torqued up. I did have to loosen the power steering pump bracket to get the pump behind it, so had to faff about lining up the VR Sensor again, which was fun
Tried to bolt the pulley onto the pump and couldn't get a single bolt to even start. The 1/4 UNC bolts from the old pump simply would not screw in, so after a look in the parts manual, I discovered that some pumps had UNF bolts. Half an hour later, and delving through every spare bolt I owned, I had three 1/4 UNF bolts. Luckily, I tried them first before cutting them to length, as they still didn't fit. I nicked a couple of M6 bolts from the Kwakker, and they fit perfectly, so thank you to the supplier for that
.
I managed to find three M6 screw head bolts from work and got it all fixed the next day.
Radiator back in, filled with water and fired him up - rumble has gone. Problem is, there was still a squeak
. I'm never any good at finding these little noises, and it did appear to be coming from the water pump still. After crawling around underneath, I started to suspect the power steering pump. To test this, I relaxed the tension on the belt, so it didn't turn, fired him up again, and squeak gone.
I did have a spare power steering pump, and hoping it was ok, I pulled the old one out and changed all the brackets over. I am fairly sure, that would have been easier with the radiator out, but I really didn't feel like draining the system again. Here's the new one, ready to fit.
Poured all the oil back in, started up and turned the wheel from lock to lock a couple of times. No noise, perfect.
So, back on the road, with 20 miles to work and back today.
Richard