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When I pull out of the garage in the morning, I can see coolant on the garage floor ( pass. side front of truck).Crawled underneath yesterday to see if I could see where it is coming from. No luck there, although the drops are coming off the front corner of the block on the pass. side. In looking from the top, I see evidence of coolant around the water pump housing, but it is dry, with a shiny glaze over it. So I'm thinking loose bolts on the pump. Not so, says the wrench on the bolts. Basing this statement on the hoops I had to jump through yesterday to get to the bottom bolt. The water pump is going to be a SOB to change, unless I'm missing something obvious. I know the belt has to be undone, which I didn't do yesterday. What else is there, to be removed? Alternator?Anything else you can thing of that would drip coolant from that area? New radiator hoses a couple of months ago. No signs of leakage on the lower coming out of the block.

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Water pump is only 2 bolts...

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I know that :banghead:. It's the, [getting to the two bolts] that seems to be my problem. With the belt, and the Radiator support??? in the way, it's almost impossible to get to the lower bolt. And moving the belt doesn't look like it would give much better access. I'm probably over thinking it.

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Belt has to come off first thing... The just remove the two bolts there "should" be plenty of room. I say much more being I've never changed mine yet... :rolleyes:EDIT:Oh crud... I just realized its a CR engine... :duh::banghead: Yeah you might be in a tighter jam...

Its the same on cr as 24v. Both easy to do AFTER you remove the belt, which is also easy, put a 1/2 drive ratchet in the tensioner pully and pull it up towards the passenger side.

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    I'm gonna jinx myself here; but I'm like Mike, I've not yet replaced the water pump on my '04.5 with almost 171,xxx miles on her.Also check your lower radiator hose........it's on the front passenger side of the engine. Both radiator hoses are also OEM on my truck...........but I do have replacements sitting in the garage to install. The bottom one looks like a PITA to do!!!:smart::2cents:

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    I'm gonna jinx myself here; but I'm like Mike, I've not yet replaced the water pump on my '04.5 with almost 171,xxx miles on her. Also check your lower radiator hose........it's on the front passenger side of the engine. Both radiator hoses are also OEM on my truck...........but I do have replacements sitting in the garage to install. The bottom one looks like a PITA to do!!!:smart::2cents:

    It's already been replaced by the previous owner. The hex heads on the screws are buggered a bit. I replaced the radiator hoses a couple of months ago, and you are right the lower is an unmitigated S.O.B.!!!!!!! I have since bought a special type hose clamp plier, that basicly has a fixture on the end of a cable. You put the fixture over the prongs of the clamp and squeeze the pliers until you have made the clamp big enough the slide off. The pliers have a ratcheting pawl lock on it so as you squeeze, the pliers lock in place. About $45-$50 and worth every penny for that job.

    06's are prone to leaking at the hose behind the turbo. It could follow the hose to the front of the motor, I would check that too.

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    06's are prone to leaking at the hose behind the turbo. It could follow the hose to the front of the motor, I would check that too.

    When you say behind the turbo. Are you talking between the turbo and the block or the literal, behind the turbo towards the firewall? There is one low on the block behind (literal) the turbo, that is in great shape. Since I put a wrench on the pump bolts, it hasn't leaked any more that I can see. Hope that is all it was. :thumbup2:

    Between the turbo and block. There is a hose that joins two hard coolant lines on the heater core return.

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    Its the same on cr as 24v. Both easy to do AFTER you remove the belt, which is also easy, put a 1/2 drive ratchet in the tensioner pully and pull it up towards the passenger side.

    Thats a negative, the CR is a bit differant from a 24V. Just put the water pump in today, took longer to figure out how to get to it, than to do it. I'll do a complete write up later.
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