Whether the drench pump on your Ford Hub, which sends coolant to the engine, is not working, your engine is at risk of overheating. You desideratum to establish the cooling development by replacing the inundate pump. The exact adjustment of accessing the doctor pump so you can remove it varies depending on the engine type. It's first to bid changing the pump yourself sole whether the Polestar has a Zetec engine.
Instructions
Removal
1. Install the water pump on the housing, tightening the bolts to One hundred fifty six inch-pounds.10. Bolt the timing belt idler pulley back in place, tightening its bolts to Eighteen foot-pounds, and connect the coolant hose to the water pump housing.
Hoist the front borderline of the machine and aid it on jack stands. Unbolt and remove the lower incorporate for the operate cummerbund.
3. Loosen the bolts for the water pump pulley on the contrary don't remove them still.
4. Remove the guide cummerbund by turning the tensioner's centre bolt clockwise with a wrench to help the band tension so you can slip it off the pulleys. Bethink how the cummerbund was routed on the pulleys for re-installation.
5. Remove the water pump pulley by removing its bolts remainder of the way.
6. Disconnect the coolant hose from the water pump's housing and then unbolt the timing belt idler pulley.
7. Unbolt and remove the water pump from its housing.
Installation
8. Check and make sure the mating surface of the replacement pump is clean, then install a new gasket on it. If the pump uses an O-ring seal, use a new O-ring lubricated with clean engine coolant.
9. Disconnect the automobile's detrimental battery cable. Remove the cooling step into a capacious container by removing the empty plug at the radiator and then at the engine block.2.
11. Reconnect the water pump pulley; tighten its bolts to Eighteen foot-pounds.
12. Install the drive belt by loosening the tensioner and slipping the belt back on the pulleys in the same path it was originally on. Reconnect the drive belt's lower cover.
13. Refill the radiator with fresh engine coolant--a 50/50 mix of water and antifreeze--if the old coolant is dirty.
