macsperformance

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Hello!

Guys I have had an electric water pump on my car for over 4 years now. I am replacing it with a new conventional water pump. I do not remember the direction the lip faces on the drive (pictured below). Is it toward the pump or toward the timing cover?


Thank you for your help in advance!
Chris Macellaro

dhdenney

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Oh **** I did this the other day and it never even dawned on me to look at that! I think I flipped it around a couple times til the water pump seated but I never paid attention to that! I guess we'll see if I have any leaks or anything down the road but it seems ok.

Speed Density

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The Ringed part goes towards the pump, I should know since I just destroyed mine last night

Tony.

dhdenney

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How did you destroy yours? I didn't use any o-rings on mine.

dhdenney

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I don't know why I am freaking out, seems like I have never seen o-rings on mine and I've had it off 4 or 5 times. Reading your all's posts makes me paranoid, lol.

Speed Density

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A Hammer.

Nor did I.

If you were confused by the before post I was saying the Ringed/Lip part faces the water pump.

Tony.

fergymoto

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A hammer to seat your water pump?! LOL you should know better man!

macsperformance

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Tony, Thank You very much for your help sir!

And good luck with yours!


Chris Macellaro

dhdenney

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No I wasn't confused. I just remembered seeing something about o-rings in the past and when you referred to it as "ringed," I started thinking maybe I should have used o-rings. But then I remembered I never used them before. Just get a little paranoid about the car cuz it seems like it's something all the time. This past weekend, I drove it a good distance and it was overheating and then I burned a wire on the starter and I had to have a buddy haul it in. You know how it is!

Bad93TA

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Shoebox has an exploded view of the water pump assembly and it shows the lip facing the motor. Im about to put my opti in on monday and need to know the correct way. Can someone give me an answer? Thanks

355z28

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yeah im kinda confused now because i think ive ran mine both ways ? why does it matter?

Bad93TA

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idk does it matter???? just dont want to install it wrong.