Ford Water Pump Replacement Tips 

Welcome- glad you liked 'em. I have SO MUCH more content to edit on that 4Runner. It's back on my radar now.

Thanks! Good idea for a clean install.

Wow! Thanks for that!

Thanks!

Permatex “Right Stuff” thinly spread across all mating surfaces. Use your gloved finger to spread a nice even thin layer. There’s your water pump, then a gasket, then the backing plate, then ANOTHER gasket, which attaches to the timing cover. I’m planning on using the permatex between each layer.

I'm just going to come out and say what I'm thinking on that one. Ford is LAZY AF when it comes to manufacturing and crank signal. They're machining, and their parts supply are fickle and it sucks working on them for that reason. They'll change parts design and planning 2 or three times a year during this era. Always use your VIN or month of manufacture from the door jamb sticker when sourcing parts and EXPECT parts to still be wrong. And they'll have sloppy manufacturing on the tone device (castleations) and then have the PCM "learn" to read it with the IDS (Ford's computer) or some other high-end bi-directional scan tool. They rush sloppy designs to market and let others sort it out later. This is why I'm so loyal to the Ford Dealership for parts. WHAT??? I know, right? They're constantly updated to fix what was sloppy during production. In your case, You need a tone ring/wheel/device that matches the difference in design/campaign for the sensor or visa versa. OR build a good/strong designed device to hold your sensor in place so it works. Likely the easiest fix is to shop the years before and after yours to find a new sensor designed to fit your harmonic balancer that came with the engine or switch it from your old one if it's still around.

Early 90's Isuzu and Ford were in the Play-doh phase of engine design. Keeping it flexible and just adding things to the motor in layers like clumps of colored clay overlapping as they went.

@@briansmobile1 Pretty much. OBD2 introduction brought everything together and made stuff MUCH easier to work on. Now its getting stupid again.

Isuzu? Or mazda? @@briansmobile1

That's an easy one. The worst are the screw on fan clutch jobs in which the fan clutch is stuck.

The White Truck Company didn't, and they went under.