oil pump question

anyone? i know this was a little last minute, but im hoping to work on this either tonight or tomorrow night.

bumping.

ive been too busy to work on this, so it has yet to be done. this weekend its slated to get worked on. so, now that everyone has had time to thing about it, let the advise flow!

Oil pump o-ring

I had a bad oil leak from the front of my engine. I replaced timing belt, cam, crank, oil pump shaft seals and water pump. When I put it all back together the thing still leaked I thought I would have to take the entire oil pump housing out which requires dropping the pan. After looking closer at the manual I realized that you can take the shaft part of the oil pump out with out taking out the entire oil pump housing off. Its just a few bolts and there is this lumpy boot shaped little rubber o-ring (not an o shape but called an o-ring) behind it that gets all dried and cracked. The part was like $16 bucks at the dealer and they knew exactly what I was talking about when I started to describe it. I would definately replace this if you are doing all the belts and seals. Hope this helps.

JamesBond
95 2.2

Reading your question again

No, this will not cause future leaks between the housing and the block and pan. The oil pump bolts are short and only go into the housing and not all the way through to the block.

James Bond

thanks mr. bond, i hope this is where my leak is coming from. but on a good note, i take take off and install the timing belt in about an hour - blindfolded. these are the last two seals around where the leak is coming from.

ghettosled said:

thanks mr. bond, i hope this is where my leak is coming from. but on a good note, i take take off and install the timing belt in about an hour - blindfolded. these are the last two seals around where the leak is coming from.

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"i take take off and install the timing belt in about an hour - blindfolded."

Is that with reassembly too?