I did this job yesterday. There actually is no clearance problem in removing or replacing the pump. Once all the mounting bolts are removed, align the pully so it slips OVER the pump shaft and up against the pump body. Now the entire unit comes ut with ease. The same applies for installing the new pump.
Dude.. changing that water pump wat lots of work.. and you did it while filming!!!! I give you so much credit for that and I appreciate you sharing this.. my van water pump quit and I have to do this :( Thanks again man.
Working with one hand and filming at the same time with the other hand is extremely embarrassing and I did a few things for trolling like a wobble extension on a universal joint. Eventually I’ll start working on cars and make it more professional thanks for the comment
You have to be careful removing the 10mm bolts holding the pump. I broke one off and could not get the broken piece out. Then I read about it and you should use lubricants and slowly work the bolts out by loosening and retightening. If you just force them , they get hot from the resistance and break. I only had one break and put a small clamp in place of the bolt but it was pretty crappy. It worked but I didn't like it.
I broke the lowest bolt on the water pump and used an Ibeam clamp with blue and red pic tight on the clamp bolt to make sure the bolt didn't loosen EVER lol the whole water pump housing will shatter before that clamp let's go of the pump housing roflol
Do you also find that VW & Audi cooling systems are easier to bleed than other manufacturers? Not too many manufacturers have multiple bleed lines that come together and then attach to the reservoir.
Get about 6 feet of 1/4" plastic tubing and after taking the radiator cap off stick the tubing down into the radiator and syphon the coolant out into a bucket or jug. Not so much mess and easier than opening the drain plug. R
Get one of those narrow double ratchets. They save a bunch of headache in tight spaces. One side is a 1/4" and the other end is 3/8 drive. A necessity on Grand Caravans to.
If it's helpful to anyone here's a way to reinstall the pump without the pulley in your way. Remove the pulley and pump as an assembly like this gentleman showed us. I personally hate trying to install parts with another part dangling off it. There's so many things that can screw you. For one the gasket could come out of position, ( happens all the time to even the best of us technicians) the gasket could fall out and you not notice it, the bolt holes are super hard to line up with the damn pulley hanging off. Anyway, what I do on these and because I personally own this exact model van is, I reinstall the pump with some rtv securely holding the rubber gasket in position and reinstall the five 10mm bolts. Then you get a separate floor jack with a wood block positioned completely centered on the jack and slowly jack up til it's just firmly against the oil pan. Then remove the three 15mm bolts from engine mount under the air box. This can be done without removing the box with an impact 15mm swivel. Then remove only the long 15mm bolt head and nut from the front center engine mount. Slowly let the engine down by super cautiously lowering your floor jack. The pump will lower enough that you can use a pry bar between the frame rail and the tensioner to slip the pulley over the end of the water pump. Reinstall the 3 bolts as much as you can by hand. Reinstall the belt and tighten them down. Then jack the engine back up slowly til you can reinstall the long 15mm bolt through the front center engine mount then thread the three 15mm bolts under the air box back into the mount and you want to tighten them up so the marks from their previous positions are back as close to the same position as possible. It sounds like a lot but it literally took me another 20 mins of work. Saves so much irritation. Later.
yo, naptown tuner....did moving the engine over cause any ill effects to the cv axles or exhaust or anything for that matter? did you move it back? one or two videos suggest removing or at least loosening the passenger side motor mount. if i was to decide to do that why would i support the engine on the oil pan? it seems as though it would smash it. obviously the pump has been changed on this van before bcuz one of the bolts on the pump itself was replaced with a smaller, longer bolt with a nut. no time for this unmentioned bs in the repair book and less time to redo it bcuz of a leak, and damn sure no money to buy a different car right now.
Great tutorial on a job I hope I never have to do.. that makes the B8 water pump look like a picnic.. wow really great job there , that transaxle design is horrible first time I saw one was in a 1980 Chevy Citation and thought how can you do a water pump?? So what did you move with the ratcheting tie down? The entire motor? I love the dr house call videos.. next time use the jack stand..LOL
Also you don't need that serpentine belt tool, just a half socket wrench and at the other end of the tensioner set it to loosen, pull it hard to the right and pull belt, or set belt with your right hand
naptown tuner i need some help ! i have a 2013 a4 quattro tfsi 2.0 that has 117,600 miles and needz new engine due too high oil consumtion , every 100-150 miles i have to add a quart of oil , so would it be better to put a new oem engine or go for a used one?
lookin at about $8k for oem engine new , would it still be worth replacing it or getting a newer model , ive replaced turbo , waterpump , pcv valve , front 2 cv axles and new set of goodyear tires
OE piston rings cost just about the same as pistons. Needs new pistons they come with rings. No need to go full rebuild, everyone can do whatever they want but it only NEEDS taken apart to do pistons then timing chain and tensioner are checked real main seal replaced with all other gaskets, water pump, turbo linkage, starter -wiring / motor mounts checked or replaced. I can’t afford to drive that far but most people around the Midwest I might be able to help. NaptownTuner@yahoo.com for mobile repair inquiries all other questions please post them here I answer stuff when I get time
Loosing the bolts to pulley BEFORE removing belt or stick a drift punch in after. Still watching Why is it still dripping antifreeze...did. You drain it?
I don’t have to do this yet but I’m ready though, also, my skinny ass had to put on a new serpentine belt behind a building in the dark and also started raining- I was under the vehicle the entire time- without removing the front tire!, and I did it with my black 1/2 harbor freight socket wrench in that tensioner, wasn’t that bad though no jacks needed either im that skinny
EVER HEARD of a large magnet to hold your camera ????? hell of a lot easier AND how about using a long pry bar to move the engine over so you can remove the pulley
Thanks for sharing. Usually the toughest part of the job is figuring out what tool setup to use. The use of the ratchet strap was brilliant! Now that I know what to expect under there and which tool to use it “should” be a piece o’ cake. I ordered an AC Delco pump with a metal impeller instead of the original plastic impeller. Oh by the way other you-tubers have replaced the stock Grade 5, 10mm bolts with Grade 8 (metric class 10.9) because they tend to corrode and break when you try to loosen them.
these ease or difficultly of these coming out on their own does have to do with the YEAR, what ever year your working on, is NOT the same as my 06 TC. i have a pipe in the way of strap and my alternator bracket is NOT the same, i think some things ARE different after sto n go, the clearance between pump and frame is LESS that what i see here, and my engine did NOT move with a strap. pump only goes in come out ONE way, the mount holes NEED ro be in the right position to get enough (Millimeters) clearance to go in/out. ive put new pump in (struggle) then realized pulley HAS to be on pump... GREAT ! so had to take out. (i just bought the van because had a leaking pump and didnt want to pay $400 to shop)
Surrender!!!! use a box end 10 mm. Seriously you're doing great for one handed. I've done this a couple times and Don't remember the pulley being impossible to remove. Are your motor mounts beat perhaps?
Just did this yesterday. F*ck the engineers. Seriously, 1/4 of an inch more and I could get everything. The pulley, the rear bolt... even the swing of the ratchet landed on a sharp corner every time. Every key I type hurts my fingers today. I ended up dropping and raising the engine to get what I needed but it seems so simple to either add access holes through the frame or shift the engine over a sliver. A 1 hour job turned into 6 hours (I also had to deal with a leaky radiator but that was just a couple easy hours).
The water pump (all of them) leak when the bearing gets to a predetermined temperature and that temperature has a wax injection that melts allowing the water pump to leak, so by witch the owner now knows the water pump is about to fail !!!
Would have took 1/2 as long with both hands. What was that comment on the beginning of the vid 🤣 If you can't.... Nice side winder rachet Watch ya face 😅
I don’t say bad words out loud but I still have a problem with the Internal dialogue in my thinking like “what the hell” and so on. I’m working on changing that to “lord Jesus help me” or something along those lines, then I can give my frustration away and might just get some better solution along the way. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 King James Version 17 Pray without ceasing
I will warn you, I broke off 4 of the 5 10mm bolts- use WD-40, or pb blast, honestly I could've done this whole job with taking the tire off or jacking up the van, had this not happened, if you're skinny enough you can do it, also leave the hood open so you have more light, don't take the belt off until you do those 13mm bolts first
You should drain the water out of the radiator to avoid laying in a puddle of water. You completely skipped over the only reason I opened this video, how to get the pump out once unbolted.
Yep...the brilliant Mopar engineers did not design in enough clearance to remove the pulley from the pump. Just great. Aircraft engineers are even worse about that. My fondest wish from my years on the flightline was to get my hands around the neck of an aircraft engineer.
Geez, man get a head mount for your camera and use both hands! Your bobbling the camera and missing shots anyways, at least the camera would see what you do then AND you'll be able to use both hands like you should be doing!! And why didn't you drain the coolant/water before even attempting this repair!!
Engineers should be made to work on their own designs.🤣 Thanx for vid
Mad respect for this man doing a water pump with one hand and keeping his composure the entire time🤣🤣
Good job dude
No doubt had to be a pain away lil job tough to do with the video In hand Ida lost my cool 😂
I did this job yesterday. There actually is no clearance problem in removing or replacing the pump. Once all the mounting bolts are removed, align the pully so it slips OVER the pump shaft and up against the pump body. Now the entire unit comes ut with ease. The same applies for installing the new pump.
I got mine thanks for the video I left the pully on though you can spin it and the holes line up with the bolts as you rotate it
Got a job doing one of these and you by far are in the top 5 for real world work thankyou
Dude.. changing that water pump wat lots of work.. and you did it while filming!!!! I give you so much credit for that and I appreciate you sharing this.. my van water pump quit and I have to do this :(
Thanks again man.
Working with one hand and filming at the same time with the other hand is extremely embarrassing and I did a few things for trolling like a wobble extension on a universal joint. Eventually I’ll start working on cars and make it more professional thanks for the comment
Thank you I just love how you have done it all with one hand. Well done! and you did not even swear!
Pull the moter mounts drop the engine gives you more clearance 💯
Kudos to you my friend! One-handed success on a hectic, difficult two-hand job! Thanks!
You made it look so much harder than it really is thanks.
Love the strap pull !
💯 best video on how to replace it
God bless you amigo, thank you for this
Good job! You're a good mechanic
I have to do this job this weekend. Thanks for the video
Amazing you did this with one hand
doing it with one hand and also filming, great job!
Thx bro, doing this job on ours today👌👌
Good Morning My Brother Hope Your Day Is Going Very Good.
You have a lot of nice tools there, wow! :-)
GRACIAS BUEN HOMBRE 👍👍
You have to be careful removing the 10mm bolts holding the pump. I broke one off and could not get the broken piece out. Then I read about it and you should use lubricants and slowly work the bolts out by loosening and retightening. If you just force them , they get hot from the resistance and break. I only had one break and put a small clamp in place of the bolt but it was pretty crappy. It worked but I didn't like it.
I broke the lowest bolt on the water pump and used an Ibeam clamp with blue and red pic tight on the clamp bolt to make sure the bolt didn't loosen EVER lol the whole water pump housing will shatter before that clamp let's go of the pump housing roflol
👏👏Acompanhei do Brasil e vou fazer na minha Grande Caravan 2002.
Nice arsenal of tools
Really good video.
Good Job !
Do you also find that VW & Audi cooling systems are easier to bleed than other manufacturers? Not too many manufacturers have multiple bleed lines that come together and then attach to the reservoir.
Lo admiro por que grabar y trabajar no es tan fácil
If you break the bolts on the pump with the belt on wouldn’t that keep it from slipping?
Get about 6 feet of 1/4" plastic tubing and after taking the radiator cap off stick the tubing down into the radiator and syphon the coolant out into a bucket or jug. Not so much mess and easier than opening the drain plug. R
Get one of those narrow double ratchets. They save a bunch of headache in tight spaces. One side is a 1/4" and the other end is 3/8 drive. A necessity on Grand Caravans to.
If it's helpful to anyone here's a way to reinstall the pump without the pulley in your way. Remove the pulley and pump as an assembly like this gentleman showed us. I personally hate trying to install parts with another part dangling off it. There's so many things that can screw you. For one the gasket could come out of position, ( happens all the time to even the best of us technicians) the gasket could fall out and you not notice it, the bolt holes are super hard to line up with the damn pulley hanging off.
Anyway, what I do on these and because I personally own this exact model van is, I reinstall the pump with some rtv securely holding the rubber gasket in position and reinstall the five 10mm bolts. Then you get a separate floor jack with a wood block positioned completely centered on the jack and slowly jack up til it's just firmly against the oil pan. Then remove the three 15mm bolts from engine mount under the air box. This can be done without removing the box with an impact 15mm swivel. Then remove only the long 15mm bolt head and nut from the front center engine mount. Slowly let the engine down by super cautiously lowering your floor jack. The pump will lower enough that you can use a pry bar between the frame rail and the tensioner to slip the pulley over the end of the water pump. Reinstall the 3 bolts as much as you can by hand. Reinstall the belt and tighten them down. Then jack the engine back up slowly til you can reinstall the long 15mm bolt through the front center engine mount then thread the three 15mm bolts under the air box back into the mount and you want to tighten them up so the marks from their previous positions are back as close to the same position as possible. It sounds like a lot but it literally took me another 20 mins of work. Saves so much irritation. Later.
yo, naptown tuner....did moving the engine over cause any ill effects to the cv axles or exhaust or anything for that matter? did you move it back?
one or two videos suggest removing or at least loosening the passenger side motor mount. if i was to decide to do that why would i support the engine on the oil pan? it seems as though it would smash it. obviously the pump has been changed on this van before bcuz one of the bolts on the pump itself was replaced with a smaller, longer bolt with a nut.
no time for this unmentioned bs in the repair book and less time to redo it bcuz of a leak, and damn sure no money to buy a different car right now.
My cheep neighbor wants me to replace his water pump for a few bucks . No thanks I am not after seeing this .👍
Yeah I'll pass. :)
Nice one, I like the serpentine belt puller kit that’s on my next todo list ♥️
Great tutorial on a job I hope I never have to do.. that makes the B8 water pump look like a picnic.. wow really great job there , that transaxle design is horrible first time I saw one was in a 1980 Chevy Citation and thought how can you do a water pump?? So what did you move with the ratcheting tie down? The entire motor? I love the dr house call videos.. next time use the jack stand..LOL
Not a wise move to tighten the bolts with an impact but glad you got it done
I think we should have a convention meet up specifically on this fukin water pump…… LoL
Nice✌
You should invest in a cheap Go Pro that would make your content way easier and better!
Also you don't need that serpentine belt tool, just a half socket wrench and at the other end of the tensioner set it to loosen, pull it hard to the right and pull belt, or set belt with your right hand
The real miracle is you had your 13mm socket and knew right where it was.
naptown tuner i need some help ! i have a 2013 a4 quattro tfsi 2.0 that has 117,600 miles and needz new engine due too high oil consumtion , every 100-150 miles i have to add a quart of oil , so would it be better to put a new oem engine or go for a used one?
lookin at about $8k for oem engine new , would it still be worth replacing it or getting a newer model , ive replaced turbo , waterpump , pcv valve , front 2 cv axles and new set of goodyear tires
Just needs pistons it already has 23mm wrist pin /rods for the most updated pistons. Where are you located
im located in Oxnard , California about 1 hour away from DownTown Los Angeles
would the clylinder block be in good shape still to just replace piston rings?
OE piston rings cost just about the same as pistons. Needs new pistons they come with rings. No need to go full rebuild, everyone can do whatever they want but it only NEEDS taken apart to do pistons then timing chain and tensioner are checked real main seal replaced with all other gaskets, water pump, turbo linkage, starter -wiring / motor mounts checked or replaced. I can’t afford to drive that far but most people around the Midwest I might be able to help. NaptownTuner@yahoo.com for mobile repair inquiries all other questions please post them here I answer stuff when I get time
What's the name of that wrench?
THANK YOU! The clearance issue was killing me...ratchet strap is my salvation...I never would have thought of that
If you dont have the tool to loosen the belt tensioner use a small pipe wrench with a breaker bar for xtra leverage, perfect
Loosing the bolts to pulley BEFORE removing belt or stick a drift punch in after.
Still watching
Why is it still dripping antifreeze...did. You drain it?
Hey Naptown are you indy would definitely like to hire you to do mine on my town and country same issue with water pump
LoL this is why I work on my own vehicles.
Why didn't you drain before starting?
I don’t have to do this yet but I’m ready though, also, my skinny ass had to put on a new serpentine belt behind a building in the dark and also started raining- I was under the vehicle the entire time- without removing the front tire!, and I did it with my black 1/2 harbor freight socket wrench in that tensioner, wasn’t that bad though no jacks needed either im that skinny
What year is this?
Would have been nice to see how you got the water pump out I guess we'll watch another video for that
It’s in there I used a ratchet strap
You said battery low and then all of a sudden it was out it's okay I figured it out though without a ratchet strap
EVER HEARD of a large magnet to hold your camera ?????
hell of a lot easier
AND how about using a long pry bar to move the engine over so you can remove the pulley
Thanks for sharing. Usually the toughest part of the job is figuring out what tool setup to use. The use of the ratchet strap was brilliant! Now that I know what to expect under there and which tool to use it “should” be a piece o’ cake. I ordered an AC Delco pump with a metal impeller instead of the original plastic impeller. Oh by the way other you-tubers have replaced the stock Grade 5, 10mm bolts with Grade 8 (metric class 10.9) because they tend to corrode and break when you try to loosen them.
these ease or difficultly of these coming out on their own does have to do with the YEAR, what ever year your working on, is NOT the same as my 06 TC. i have a pipe in the way of strap and my alternator bracket is NOT the same, i think some things ARE different after sto n go, the clearance between pump and frame is LESS that what i see here, and my engine did NOT move with a strap. pump only goes in come out ONE way, the mount holes NEED ro be in the right position to get enough (Millimeters) clearance to go in/out. ive put new pump in (struggle) then realized pulley HAS to be on pump... GREAT ! so had to take out. (i just bought the van because had a leaking pump and didnt want to pay $400 to shop)
Spent so much time trying to use the power tools when 10mm swivel ratchet wrench and it would have been out in ten minutes.
I was trying to stick my hand in there to hold that stupid pulley back. I tell ya
I prefer Indian head gasket shellac. That stuff is great. Smells good too!
everytime they start pulling out power tools and expensive tools i just look for another video. All I got is elbow grease and wrenches, lol.
Thats how I feel when I see videos with guys putting cars on lifts...I'm like NEXT!😂
Would not have been easier to loose the motor mount and have an extra inch to pull out the pulley, just asking.
Yea just loosen the bolt on motor mount 90 percent not all the way. Drop engine replace water pump.
Surrender!!!! use a box end 10 mm. Seriously you're doing great for one handed. I've done this a couple times and Don't remember the pulley being impossible to remove. Are your motor mounts beat perhaps?
Thank you for the video. DONT USE A FILE
Just did this yesterday.
F*ck the engineers. Seriously, 1/4 of an inch more and I could get everything. The pulley, the rear bolt... even the swing of the ratchet landed on a sharp corner every time. Every key I type hurts my fingers today.
I ended up dropping and raising the engine to get what I needed but it seems so simple to either add access holes through the frame or shift the engine over a sliver.
A 1 hour job turned into 6 hours (I also had to deal with a leaky radiator but that was just a couple easy hours).
Ye I don’t have a ratchet strap
The water pump (all of them) leak when the bearing gets to a predetermined temperature and that temperature has a wax injection that melts allowing the water pump to leak, so by witch the owner now knows the water pump is about to fail !!!
ya mang
Why you don’t loose the rear motor mount,
It easy because the engine will lower down and you will have more space
My way was better that’s why.
@Abel Polanco, do you know how much work is involved at getting to that rear motor mount? Do you even own a grand caravan? 😆
I dropped the engine 1 inch to get the bish on
How long does it take to get it done?
Would have took 1/2 as long with both hands.
What was that comment on the beginning of the vid 🤣 If you can't....
Nice side winder rachet
Watch ya face 😅
wow i've been an auto tech over 35 years and that was painful to watch .
Define auto tech? Muffler shop?
If your steel water pump bolts are SEIZED in the aluminum timing chain cover like mine were THEN you're looking at about a 4-hour job :(
Hope you put antifreeze back in before you fired it up lol 😅
Seriously without your electric Rachet you'd be lost!
You great work but it's driving me nuts everytime you look away sorry but can't keep watching
My neighbours would never know I am a Christian after watching me work on this water pump. I said a lot of BAD WORDS ;)
I don’t say bad words out loud but I still have a problem with the Internal dialogue in my thinking like “what the hell” and so on. I’m working on changing that to “lord Jesus help me” or something along those lines, then I can give my frustration away and might just get some better solution along the way.
1 Thessalonians 5:17
King James Version
17 Pray without ceasing
Please invest in a trypod
I will warn you, I broke off 4 of the 5 10mm bolts- use WD-40, or pb blast, honestly I could've done this whole job with taking the tire off or jacking up the van, had this not happened, if you're skinny enough you can do it, also leave the hood open so you have more light, don't take the belt off until you do those 13mm bolts first
how'd you drill them out and tap in new threads with such little space to work with?
You should drain the water out of the radiator to avoid laying in a puddle of water.
You completely skipped over the only reason I opened this video, how to get the pump out once unbolted.
You didn’t see the part where I moved the engine over with a ratchet strap
Behold the fukn pump 🤬
🤣
Yep...the brilliant Mopar engineers did not design in enough clearance to remove the pulley from the pump. Just great. Aircraft engineers are even worse about that. My fondest wish from my years on the flightline was to get my hands around the neck of an aircraft engineer.
Yup, too much 💩, going to scrap yard
My pops taught me to get the fasteners that are hard to reach first. I think that would've been the ticket here.
Pop it off???? My shit spinning & all won’t come off
Perfect video
To tk tk tk
Geez, man get a head mount for your camera and use both hands! Your bobbling the camera and missing shots anyways, at least the camera would see what you do then AND you'll be able to use both hands like you should be doing!!
And why didn't you drain the coolant/water before even attempting this repair!!
I think that was longer than 25 minutes
With one hand 🤯
Also behind the radiator at the bottom by the driver's side there's a plug so you can drain it first...duh
that is one miserable job.
I like how you just let the toxic antifreeze just drip on the pavement for any animal to drink. Very assholey.
I hope it killed the neighbors cat, it’s always walking on my cars
Way to thumbs up your own comment btw
Just saw water didn't see green or other color
It was water
No just causes testicle cancer.
I think i would have drained it atleast but hey thats just me🤷🏻
So... You're using "film" are ya?