Forums Forums Enthusiast Forums A - Z Autowirral how do you know if your water pump is broke ?

I will diagnose it for free mate ...just get it to mine one day...and you can decide where to go from there??

get it sorted mate or you will have hgf on your case, you cant just keep topping it up with water, it will destroy the head gasket if you carry on driving it.

thanks very much for your all your help,i took it into a garage in moreton near where i work this morning(before i saw chris's kind offer) and the guy says that the pump is knackered.he not a mate but i sort of know him if ya know what i mean and he showed me exactly how to fit a new one,which bolts to undo etc, looks and sounds really easy. told me to fit new fan belts whilst i was doing it.formula 1 in moreton quoting £39 for a new pump,does that sound reasonable?

£39 including gaskets and new fan belt does yeah

oh well,new pump fitted,did not have the bottle to do it myself,paid a nice mate to do it for me,£30 well spent..next job,the shims,flattened my battery on saturday morning trying to get the ffffing thing started.tried it this afternoon without a jump start and it started in about 15 seconds,amazing the difference in tempreture has..mind you at 7oclock saturday morning it was about minus 5..had to run to the bloody train station.

This test takes five minutes.

Take the pipe off the thermostat-radiator,
Take the thermostate off,
Stick a hose in the pipe that goes in the radiator and turn it on,
Start the car
If the water comes out of the cavity that was the thermostat in a swirling pattern (like water going down the plug hole), your pump is OK.