Guy Fiero - The Water Pump

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Mr. Saturn

After getting the alternator swapped, the car still sounded like it had a supercharger. This combined with a bearing-ish noise at higher RPMs, led me to believe that the water pump was at fault.

I was a bit worried about this job. Everybody on the forums went on about how awful a Fiero water pump swap is. Even worse, I couldn't see exactly where the hard part was.

Despite this, I set off to work. Believe it or not, the actual job was completely uneventful. I took the old pump off, put the new one on, and it didn't leak.

What was a bit confusing was that it didn't fix the noise. Given that I had replaced all two components driven by the V-belt, I concluded that it must not be something important.

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