i have searched & came up w/ nothing... now my motor... d15b seems to like to eat up water pumps... is there any other option for me?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 92civicfreak &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i have searched & came up w/ nothing... now my motor... d15b seems to like to eat up water pumps... is there any other option for me?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think your just having bad luck. How many has your motor killed.? Where did they come from?

I have not heard of any water pump issues for D motors.. You might not get to much feed back .

 

how can your motor be eating them up? there's really nothing on the pump that can be eaten up that frequently.

 

A very common mistake is for people to over tighten the timing belt. Being that the water pump itself has a bearing, if the timing belt is over tightened, this will cause extra friction and excessive wear on the water pump. Check and possibly loosen up the belt a bit. The way I do it is tighten up the belt as much as possible. Start the car. Let it run (and it will zoom since the belt it to tight) and turn it off. Then slightly loosen the tension bolt without dissassembling everything. Let the belt slightly relax and then tighten again. The reason why you want to run the car after tightening the first time is to allow the belt to set itself. Turn the car on again, if no zoom any more, then belt tension is fine. If still zooming, then loosen again and re-tighten again. Keep in mind that the amount of tension that you put on that belt is mostly passed on to the water pump itself and thus this makes for the excessive wear. Hope this helps.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by chicows18 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">A very common mistake is for people to over tighten the timing belt. Being that the water pump itself has a bearing, if the timing belt is over tightened, this will cause extra friction and excessive wear on the water pump. Check and possibly loosen up the belt a bit. The way I do it is tighten up the belt as much as possible. Start the car. Let it run (and it will zoom since the belt it to tight) and turn it off. Then slightly loosen the tension bolt without dissassembling everything. Let the belt slightly relax and then tighten again. The reason why you want to run the car after tightening the first time is to allow the belt to set itself. Turn the car on again, if no zoom any more, then belt tension is fine. If still zooming, then loosen again and re-tighten again. Keep in mind that the amount of tension that you put on that belt is mostly passed on to the water pump itself and thus this makes for the excessive wear. Hope this helps.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yep the timing belt should always have a little bit of play

 

& it does... the first one was oem & the one in there now is a duralast from autozone... i had no money at that point + it was an emergancy... thats why that in there, but it has only been a year