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Water pump Gates or OEM FORD
Just buy the wole WP+ housing as an assembly. Who cares if it's OEM. I install Gates WP/Timing belt kits on many other cars and they are excellent. Better than OEM.
Pros: excellent, better than OEM
Gates is the brand everyone get and refers to for the water pump. Good quality and cheap enough. If you can't get gates. There are two main impeller designs. Cast and sheet metal tabs. Supposedly the cast impeller design performs better. So if you're ordering from a generic parts store, make sure it's the cast impeller design (but the sheet metal design works just fine).
Pros: good quality, cheap enough, cast impeller better
Last time I got a new Gates water pump (made in china) the flange position on the shaft was a little different than my old one but it was close enough.
Pros: close enough
Cons: flange position different
Pretty sure this is the motor that needs the engine dropped to do waterpump and timing components. Bad bad design
Cons: bad design, engine removal needed
Vehicle:
Ford
The 3.5 5th generation Explorer has an internal water pump driven by the timing chain. It’s an enormous pain to change requiring significant disassembly (nearly 12 hours of labor) and generally includes replacing the timing chain in the process since you’re already in there, plus when it fails it can easily mix the coolant with the oil and destroy the engine, all that’s keeping them apart is a little seal.
Cons: internal pump, difficult to change, engine damage risk
Vehicle:
Ford Explorer
Gates waterpump broke in 2, the base is still mated to the block with all the bolts in-tact
Cons: catastrophic failure
Gates water pumps have been going downhill. I bought one for a Toyota Rav4 v6 and it started leaking after two months of service.
Cons: started leaking, going downhill
Vehicle:
Toyota
The new Gates water pump installed last month started leaking. I have only driven around 1000km. Does this happen a lot for Gates pumps?
Cons: started leaking
Mileage: 1000 km
Years ago I would use the Gates kit on my 03 Evo with no issue, but a few years back I had a failure (from a different component) after 19k miles and the Gates pump was weeping when I removed it. The shop I use also doesn’t recommend them either so I go OEM for the water pump anymore.
Cons: weeping when removed, shop doesn't recommend
Vehicle:
Mitsubishi Lancer
Mileage: 30577 km
water pump failed at 101,000. Shop replaced under warranty. That next one failed at 110,000. Took a little work since shop changed owners but got the the water pump replaced at no cost. Shop said the two bad ones were Gates
Cons: failed repeatedly, short lifespan
Vehicle:
Chevrolet Sonic
Mileage: 101000 km
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