Replacing leaking water pump '89 300E

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Guenter Scholz - 03 Jun 2005 17:04 GMT

Hi All, Mr Lambach (sp?) about a year ago wrote an absolutely wonderful
article on how to replace a waterpump. I intended to follow this but noticed
that he may have been referring to a vehicle other than the 300E since in his
case the pump appeared to have been behind the engine cooling fan. I notice
that on my '89 300E the water pump is off to the right hand side (looking
from front). The job appears to be straight forward after I losen the
serpentine belt it appears the pump can be just unbolted.
While I try to do this, is there anything I should watch out for so as
not to get any nasty suprises? Am I wrong that I don't need to remove the
cooling fan? Many thanks for any help/pointers

- cheers, guenter

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Tiger - 08 Jun 2005 21:12 GMT

You definitely need to remove the engine cooling fan to get it out... Easier
job would be to remove the radiator so you can get to the cooling fan nut
and easily remove the waterpump.

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Guenter Scholz - 09 Jun 2005 19:54 GMT

Thanks for the pointer, much appreciated. Seems I should budget a full day
for this job..... tempted to let the shop do it, but they want over CDN $500
plus another CDN$ 250 for the pump :-((

cheers

>You definitely need to remove the engine cooling fan to get it out... Easier
>job would be to remove the radiator so you can get to the cooling fan nut
>and easily remove the waterpump.

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