Coming home from work I could smell radiator smell. Well looked under there and sure enough it's coming right from the Harmonic balancer area. I remember changing out my town car. The wrench wanted 150.00 to do it. Boy I sure wish I had paid him. It was a four hour job. I'm wondering what a wrench is charging these days.

 

by wrench u mean mechanic? I did it my self on the truck wasnt too bad cept taking the fan clutch off . My mechanic wanted about 500 for the job, did it me self for about 65 for the pump and 60 for the belt tensioner

 

Yeah water pump is the best novice DIY you can do there is so much info in the search on it and its pretty hard to mess up, haynes + DF = saving money(on your car insurance)

 

There's a step by step article on pavementsucks.com under their tech section on WP and Timing Chain replacement.

 

water pump is easy, i did mine on my 97 5.2 only hard part was getting the fan off. i had to cut around the nut, because the road grime was so thick. once it was free came right off. one thing. might be alot easier to remove fan shroud first.

 

air ratchet = coolest tool ever made

 

lol or a sledge hammer when yer really frustrated ;-)

 

what about a blow torch? i used it to cut my fan clutch off to keep the fan. i did it for about 160$$ cause my cluth was scrap