Hi,
Wonderful forum and community, first time poster. Can someone please help me!

On the car currently replacing the factory water pump is a Duralast AWP 9354 pump from autozone. It had the paper gasket but was leaking slightly to effect of me adding coolant every couple of days. https://www.autozone.com/cooling-hea...26559_565935_0

Yesterday I decided to put in the metal gasket (MAHLE k31850) from autozone with the AWP 9354 , the car had coolant leaking like crazy after doing this.

So I went to advanced auto parts and bought their waterpump Carquest Ti1200 https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/...Term=waterpump

Tried to mount the carquest pump and the metal gasket but the bolts from the car are not long enough to go through the pump and screw into the housing.

What am I missing the install seems so simple based on instructions from here and JTIS instructions? Am I using the wrong pump, gasket, do I need gasket sealer?



Please help I can't make it to work without!?!

 

I'd tell you what size bolts are used so you can buy longer ones, but if the original bolts dont work, I bet you have the wrong pump and the pulley wont line up.

The kind of leak failure on the azone pump is common enough after a couple of years.

Why not just buy another from them? I just changed mine last month. Did not use sealer, all is ok. It comes with a gasket.

Gosh I've never seen a metal gasket. How thick is it? Didn't the carquest pump come with any gasket? Sure sounds like this "metal " gasket is questionable.

Can it be that you are not using the gasket supplied with the pump?

 

I've replaced the water pump with metal gasket. You have to tighten carefully, to make sure the gasket is doing its job and sealing. Do not overtighten.
I just used wrist tight on the socket, going round the bolts evenly with the same torque.

 

Eomall3754,

Sounds like you have the classic symptoms of “stretched ” bolts.

Agree with the above comments. Probably you bought wrong pump and in your attempts to tighten down, you’ve stretched the bolts. That means that they’ve mechanically changed to a plastic state so won’t hold esp. when hot.

If in doubt of a fit up, it’s always safer to go with the OEM part even if it’s a bit more expensive.

Sorry for your pain, but you’ll need new bolts now.

 

Actually, according to the manual the bolts are torqued to 8nM , and then tightened an additional 90 deg to stretch them. And they are single use. Of course, some of us reuse and just tighten to 8nM

 

Fyi the bolts are:
JZS100105
M6 12mm

Good news, they are very common in your auto parts store.

Don't know what it's like by you, but I've found greater bolt selection and easier to find at advanced auto than autozone. but like I said, these are common, I'd be surprised if autozone didn't have them.

John