I started my car today for the first time in 1 month (tranny install, waitin for $$) and noticed a leak. Coolant is running down onto the manifold, and down each corner of the oil pan under the timing belt side. I looked up to where the water pump is, and right behind the alternator there is a tube like thing that looks like a water hose hook up, with nothing hooked to it. Right beside it is the bolt that holds it, and right to the left of that bolt is another bolt, and it looks like the leak is originating there...or somewhere really close....anyone??

 

you and me are in the same boat, happend to me tonight. i'm going to take it all out and pray i did'nt jack something up

 

the water pump and gasket are not terribly hard to replace. It sounds hard becasue of the timeing belt, But anyone with some basic skills can do it in a afternoon in their garage. pm me if you need some help

 

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i can help to, pm me

 

THANKS TO DEEPGREENGSR and King_i, I may be calling on you guys for help. Is this a common problem with integras? it could just be that i am over 170k
So today I wanted to make sure that the leak was in fact originating at the water pump, I looked and looked and it seems that the water is coming out the bottom water pump bolt. Or I mean it loooks like it is dripping from between the pump and block at that bolt....assuming i am loooking at the correct bolt. You can see the bottom water pump bolt from the fender well, without having the timing cover off, correct? (bolt i am referring to is to the left of the alternator, directly to the left of the tube like thing that looks like a heater hose should be attached. Also how much is a water pump?

 

if youre goin to replace the water pump.. you might as well replace the timing belt. how many miles on your odometer? have you changed the pump yet&gt;?

 

I personally haven't changed either, but the timing belt cover isn't on all the way, so at least the belt was changed....but i am the 2nd owner and the 1st was a girl who took it to the stealership for everything, either way I am going to change both.

 

It should have been changed when the timing belt was changed but probably didn't get changed since it's leaking now.

 

is the bolt i descrribed the lower waterpump bolt? Since the leak seems to be originating there, does that pretty much have to be the pump

 

yea thanks guys i'll be hitting you up as soon as it comes in the mail. I'm going to get a timing belt as well and replace it at the same time.
Winter sucks

 

There's bolts all around the waterpump. I don't think any particular one is called to 'lower' bolt. The others are covered up by the lower timing cover.

There's a weep hole over there, too. If it leaks out there, it means the waterpump bearing seal is where it's leaking. Tightening won't do any good. There's 2 bearings, the weep hole comes from the space between them. When the first one leaks, it drips out the weep hole so you know about it. Otherwise it would just leak into the timing belt & you wouldn't know about it until it got a lot worse.

 

thanks, I am going to bite the bullet and assume it is the water pump. I guess I'll tear into that as soon as i can get the parts.

 

if its gushing water as u poor it in from the back when the car is off is that the same bearing. Its highly noticeable, i forgot my car was from california and did'nt increase the ratio of antifreeze to h2o, and i'm just an idiot for that