Water Pump pulley

[DSM BoosT]

Ok I am just making sure that this is the correct decision.

A couple days ago the car was squeaking badly. It was coming from the water pump. I took off the pulley and checked it out, the little pulley attached to the water pump was loose and i could move it just by pressing it with my finger anyway, So I thought that I needed to tighten up the bolts on the other pulleys connecting to it. I did and the noise continued.

So what i'm asking is, can that pulley thing attached to the WP be tightened or do I need to replace the entire water pump???? Thanks

 

[JesterJess]

Sound to me like the water pump bearing is shot, causing all of that squeeking noise.

 

[DSM BoosT]

yeah I think it is too, so I need to replace the whole thing fun fun cant wait to spend 8 hours on doing

 

[Spdfreak]

you should keep the pulley and just change the water pump i had a water pump go bad and made the same sound and its a good time to change all belts while you're in there

 

[KevinRR]

You should replace the water pump asap and it should only take about an hour or two. A buddy of my was lazy and tried to wait till the weekend the blades on the water pump broke on him. Long story short he ended up overheating on the highway and had to tow his car home.

 

[dsmtun3r98gst]

yeah I think it is too, so I need to replace the whole thing fun fun cant wait to spend 8 hours on doing

WTF you better be joking when you said that your going to spend 8 hours changing the water pump, cus me and my friend changed the water pump on my gst in about an hour give or take a few mins

 

[DSM BoosT]

jk bout 8 hours but when I go in do can I just take off the tensioner pulley and then take off the water pump and just swap it out with a new OEM pump, or what else needs to come off to take the WP out??? It looks like the tensioner arm might be blocking one of the bolts on the vfaq diagram can some one do a write up on this ?????

 

[DSM BoosT]

Wait im looking at the diagram, cant I just loosen the tensioner and leave the tensioner pulley on, then swap the pump out with out touching the timing belt?????