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the water pump.

It's leaking. It looks like it's leaking from the top side of the pump. I'm wondering if it's that 50,000 mile thing. I just turned over 50k about 2 weeks ago. It started leaking on my way home from Bear Lake on Monday. I kept a real close eye on it Tuesday and Wednesday, only driving to and from work. It was leaving a little puddle trail on Wednesday when I got home from work. So, I had my dad bring his trailer and take my car to his house, Wednesday night. (oh it sucks being without a car)

Here's the plan, I'm changing the pump, gasket, belt, bolts, and the 2 hoses the attach to the pump. I'm gonna pick up the stuff at lunch today and change it tonight. I've looked in my repair manual and I'm guessing it'll take about 2-3 hours.

That sucks. They seem to go like clockwork though don't they? I hope all goes well tonight.

hey i have had to change my water pump about three times...be ready to reset the timing.. it took me a while to figure that one out ..but with the time setting tool for top dead center it was easy!!Now it only takes me about 1 1/2 hours to changet the water pump and reset the timing ...good luck man.

reset the timing
The repair manual doesn't say anything about that. Oh wait, it does for the Zetec. I've got the Duratec so I won't have to worry about that.

Timing is a non issue for me now.

ok, water pump is all changed. It all went pretty well. I just gotta spend some time cleaning the mess it made.

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About how long? How hard was it? I heard its pretty simple compared to most cars. Just wanting some comfirmation.

well after reading the repair manual, I figured about 2-3 hours. I think it took about 3 hours to change out the pump. And about another hour or so to make sure everything was done and get the cooling system full again.
It wasn't really hard. But it was just a lot of stuff to do. Ya, compared to most cars, this was a breeze! The hardest part was getting one of the hoses back on. The long hose that goes from the pump and turns down into the top of the block (below the throttle body) was kind of a pain.

here's kind of an interesting thing about it. The pump from batinc.net and spmotorsports.com shows just the pump half, NOT the housing (which is what my biggest problem was). The pump that I got from Ford had the pump, gasket, back housing, and the two big hoses all as one part, all put together and it only cost me $64 bucks! I also had to replace the 3 torque to yeild bolts, so the total cost of parts was $66 dollars even.