Water Pump removal - problems?

Tryed my Camera and cant get it to work, however after looking at it more I think the problem is the intake gasket or either the Head Gasket on cylinder 4-5-6 which is the front cylinder. I dont see any water at all in the oil and the Motor Ran perfect, what is the chance of it being just a small leak at the intake gasket? How hard is just that to change as I already have Dist out and the Fuel Injectors out, ran across a brand new set of injectors for 10 bucks and got them so I was gonna replace them. Also how much work is it to change the head gasket? I think water would be in the oil if that was bad wouldnt you?

Yes go ahead and send me the replacement procedure for the intake gaket procedure, would you change the head gasket as well even though there is no water in the oil? Cant be much more to take off to get the head off is there? Also would you just replace the cylinder (Head) that is leaking or would you go ahead and do both sides?

How do you take the clamp off the hose on the water pump there is no room to work cant put anything on to get it off

I need to know how to take a water pump off of 94 ford taurus 3.0 with ac

It should not be that hard of a job. However, I don't know if you work on cars and what your criteria for a bad job would be.

Without seeing your car, I am going to guess that it would be helpful to jack up the car and remove the wheel from the water pump side so you can do some or most of the work through the wheel well.

Break loose the bolts from the water pump pulley first, then take a ratchet or breaker bar and overcome the idler pulley to slip the fan belt off. Yank the pulley, take the pump bolts out (paying attention to the position and the length of the bolts in case they are not all the same.)

(I am assuming it was a given to drain the radiator first and into a clean bucket if you wanted to re-use it).

Before we go any farther, what is your car's problem? It may NOT be the water pump and this is a pain to do for nothing. I have NEVER seen a water pump go bad that did not leak around the water pump, so if you have a bad head gasket blowing exhaust pressure into the water jacket and causing coolant to not circulate and to overheat the engine, it may not be the water pump at all.

If you could give descriptive symptoms, I could be of better help.

Anyway, to continue, after the pump is out, scrape and clean surfaces with a razor blade and spray cleaner and rags.

When installing a new water pump, I put motor oil on all the bolts for the next poor soul 150, 00 miles down the road. Also for me if I have to pull it off tomorrow.

Put a bead of high temp red or orange RTV silicone on both sides of the gasket. After you tighten the bolts, you can wipe off the "squease out" silicone or just leave it there to dry.

Good Luck! Without a description of you symptoms, I cannot tell you that the water pump is the real problem.

When someone asks, "How do you do this?", I start with "Why do you need to do this?".

Just trying to help,

Ken

Engine Cooling problem
1993 Ford Taurus 6 cyl Two Wheel Drive Automatic

Ive got the pump all undone from the engine and now the bolts are too long and they wont allow it to come all the way off the car.

I broke a stud while tryiny to remove water pump do I have to remove timing cover to remove broken stud?

Thats what I thought, I was hoping I would'nt have to. Thank you, was help full

Engine Cooling problem
1990 Ford Taurus 6 cyl Front Wheel Drive Automatic

Need procedure and tips to remove and replace the water pump