Waterpump Broken

[SW205 1 1 Cars]

AHHH what a day!

 

my 1.8D daily driver decided in oneday to go from the most reliable car i've ever owned to finally letting me down

 

yesterday consisted of the following

 

on the way into work, either from the hard freeze the night before or for some other reason, cracked the waterpump housing and decided to drain my entire cooling system and leave me stuck in work, filled it with water and stopped a few times on the way home to check levels.

 

When i got home, after a scarry drive home due to the 90mph cross winds i open the door to get out, the door gets taken out of my hand by the wind, breaks the door stay in 3 bits (the bar that stops it going to far) and bends the door!

 

so it leaves me with a few options

 

new water pump and timing kit is gonna cost me approx £120 to fix

 

or and ive wanted to do this for a while is it time for a new d-turbo engine

 

 

also does anyone have a d-turbo engine (306 or 405) for sale in northern Ireland??

 

ive been getting prices from 250-300 for engine, turbo intercooler the lot

 

opinions or thoughts please, what should i do??

[dcc 855]

Fix with standard parts. Waterpump 22, belt kit 70ish.

[MikeC 10]

I'd fix the current engine regardless, even if you end up dropping in a D-turbo.

You'd go a long way with a haynes manual, doing the work yourself.

Edited February 14, 2014 by MikeC

[SW205 1 1 Cars]

small update, good new and not so

 

well the water pump is actually good on the back of the block is a small plastic housing which attaches to the bottom hose of the radiator, its the thing thats cracked, so ive a new one ordered

 

yey!!

[SW205 1 1 Cars]

parts just arrived, can you guess what i will be doing this evening??

[welshpug 1,661]

Getting veeeeeeryy oily

[SW205 1 1 Cars]

yep :-)