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2019 Lincoln MKZ, I had water pump replaced. 3 months later, died out while driving. Got a jump. Sounded like a rod knock. Had it towed 2 shop. Whom said, “ ENGINE BLOWN”! What r your thoughts?
wow! thank you so much 4 making this video! It actually stopped me from purchasing a 2011 MKX w/ the 3.7l . I knew the older 3.5's were trash & had the water pump located behind the timing cover but I did NOT think the 3.7's did! It is worthy of mentioning they did NOT do this on the 2011 & up Mustang's w/ the 3.7l . It's still a normal h20 pump on the outside of the engine driven by the serpentine belt. I guess Ford knew that would hinder Mustang sales if they did this crappy design on one of their flagships, huh?
i could be wrong you make a great point, because the dealers make lots of money changing the pump from labor, its probably because its a sideways (FWD) mounted version, there was probably no room to have a belt driven water pump on the front but, your theory wouldn't surprise me
Thanks for the video but where is the long video of how to change the water pump out. The full one? You have the link? Couldn’t find it anywhere on your RU-vid channel or your website. Thanks
Could they have designed this to be anymore difficult and expensive to repair? What the hell Ford trying to force people into taking the car to a dealership or shop. Not exactly a a Saturday afternoon driveway job.
Can you remove the water crossover without removing the intake on a 2010 navigator 5.4 liter? I'm just trying to replace does gaskets on the water crossover.
What kind of genius buries a water pump inside the engine. Especially directly above the oil pan. Cars may run better than ever, but for what they charge at sale. This design is ridiculous. It can destroy an engine if it isn't caught in time. Way to go engineer's.
If you mentioned this in your video, I must have missed it. My question........Is there a way to make the water pump last longer or is the water pump issue completely random?
Get rid of the Motorcraft coolant, wether it's orange or yellow, get rid of it. Use a P-Oat asian vehicle coolant. P-Oat coolant has phosphates that essentially coat your entire cooling system in a thin layer. This layer protects rubber seals and metal components. The updated Motorcraft Yellow coolant is a P-Oat formula, however, I still wouldn't trust it. Super tech blue from Walmart does the job.
All I know is the engineers that designed engines that you need to remove half of the engine just to replace the water pump!!! Need to be tortured somehow. Make them replace 20 of them and see if they keep designing things in that manner. I'm pretty sure they will change things.
My lincoln Mkt 2014 watter pump broke and my mechanic replaced the pump for 700 $ . The cheapest price on the market. Of course the Ford dealership wanted from 1600 $ to 2200 $ . Ford made those cars more complicated so costumers can pay a lot of money to the dealership. .
It's almost like Ford WANTS the coolant 2 mix with the oil just b/c of a failed h20 pump!?! Now you're most likely gonna need a whole new engine!?! I mean, holy crap, with this amount of work needing 2 be done just 2 replace the darn thing, who's really gonna preemptively do this job b4 it wears out? We used 2 call this profit engineering in Texas!!!
I was gonna buy one that had a bad water pump im a mechanic and I remembered not every car is a pushrod motor pain in the ass I passed on the car not worth it
