Water Pump Seal Replacement

>>16451207
what kind of car, model/year?

>>16451207
You replace the whole water pump, not the seal.
Depends on the car how big of a job it is. Some are easy, others I wouldn't recommend to someone who never wrenched before.

>>16451227
>>16451269
It's an 01 Oldsmobile Aurora.

>>16451269
This.

>>16453562
If its chain driven, easy. If its belt, harder.
Being transverse, its even more harder.

GL

Changing a seal is a pretty hard job. It requires a hydraulic press, blowtorch, accurate measuring tools (at least a scale with 1/32" graduations) a new bearing, new impeller, new seal, and the knowhow of putting everything back together properly.

Pressing the bearing out of the housing destroys the bearing, the seal, and usually the impeller.

Not really recommended unless you have a machine shop and sources for the appropriate parts (kinda hard to do now that nobody except China makes the parts any more)

All this is fine for a car with a fairly rare pump, like a '50s Cadillac, or a Studebaker, or a Peerless. But if you can find the pump at Vatozone that's the way to go.

TL;DR just fucking go to a parts house.

>>16451207
Smack a fuck load of silicone around it