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Hepu Water Pump Install - Lessions learned
Posted by Nickshu (more from Nickshu) on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:08:45
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I installed a new Hepu water pump yesterday....many thanks to Dean's posts on the install. My old pump started sounding like a box of rocks about a week ago, but never leaked at all.
I was hard-pressed to decide between the OEM Saab pump and the Hepu. The Hepu requires you to split the old OEM pump and re-use the back housing, but costs less than 1/2 of the OEM pump. So I figured I can buy two Hepu pumps for one OEM, so what the heck...I went with the cheaper Hepu.
I had no big problems on the install. The only hitch was one of the bolts on the old pump housing was rusted in place, and I snapped it off when removing. Fortunately the threaded portion is on the pump side, not the housing. So I just got a new 6 x 1.25mm bolt for the housing and the new pump went right on, no problem.
The Hepu kit includes all the O-rings needed, and a new gasket for the re-used housing. A little gasket sealer and white lithium grease on the o-rings and it was good to go.
So my advice to anyone doing this project with the Hepu pump is to get some 6x1.25mm bolts to have handy when you are assembling the new pump. Otherwise nothing out of the ordinary. The project took me about 3.5 hours, including a coolant flush (I already had a new T-stat in 6 months ago) and a manual transmission oil change too.
Nick
95 900S
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