Emergency JB-Weld Water Pump Fix on VW Golf MK4 (JB-Weld is the BEST GLUE EVER)
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2017
- How to fix your water failed plastic water pump with JB-Weld. I was stranded 2 hours from home with only a few basic tools when my water pump decided to fail. So I decided to fix the water pump with JB-Weld so that I could get home where my real tools are to replace the water pump. Well it worked great! The JB-Weld saved my butt!! BEST GLUE EVER!!! I hope you at least found this video entertaining if not educational. :P
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Good to see a young person working on his own car these days.
Tis fun! Plus I don't have the money to pay someone.
Nothing wrong with that man , It got you there and never let you down ! .. I have been under my car at mid night putting rod bearings in just to make it to my classes .. GOOD JOB MAN ! THUMBS UP ..
Wow! I was watching and thinking, "There is no way that is gonna work. No way." Holy f! It worked! OMG!! We are not worthy. MakerJ101 is da MAN!!
I've got a 2001 VW New Beetle TDI with over 125K miles on it. It might still be running on the original water pump unless the shop I took it to for the 60K timing belt change replaced the water pump. I think maybe they were supposed to, but I can't remember. Did not know that they make them out of plastic on a VW! I just replaced a water pump on my 1995 Chevy G20 Van at 163K miles, so yeah, even the metal ones don't last forever.
Amazing that you were able to get access to the backside of the water pump like that. Even more amazing that you were able to figure out the problem and jerry rig a solution with JB Weld while out on the road with minimal tools like that. Good job bro!!
Glad you made it home. I was not sure the JB would hold once the engine got up to temp but leaving out the thermo was a great idea.
+fredintheshed1 yeah that was one of my concerns too. Before I came up with the idea to use JB Weld I thought to just leave the thermostat out and hope natural circulation and whatever the water pump could still pump would be enough.
It's good to 500 degrees, average engine temp is 210
Love the engine on indicator. It's good that VW give you such a clear method to let you know your engine is running when the hood is open and you want to work on your car.
Hehehe yep! It's an excellent feature. Only comes on the deluxe Golf model! :D
I think my TDI New Beetle has it too, although I haven't tested it.
also happy to see you using proper G12 coolant.
great video. thanks for sharing, far braver than I.
"Leave my car alone!!! boooohooo!"
Looked like you were about to have a Chris Crocker moment at the start of the video hahaha?
"Oh, yeah! I just know this gonna work!"
Shoot! There goes my Chris Crocker theory hahaha!
And ... you made it back (or whatever) and are here to tell us about it. I'm impressed! Great job!!! :D
I'm not sure who Chris Crocker is sooo.... :P
Ah, a chinesium socket set. Uncle Bumblefuck would be proud
Dude, where can I get one of those "Engine On Indicators"??
Hmm... that's a good question... I'll let you know if I find a good source hahaha
Change tensioner good plan I had one go out before I had to rig something temporary to get to where I needed to get
JB weld is awesome, there's a channel called Project Farm, man there glued a decent size slit with it in the cylinder head of a small Briggs. Then he made an entire head from nothing but JB weld :D
one time we had a person with mk 2 and it was out of coolant and out of phase when i removed timing belt cover i saw timing belt falling apart and water pump lost both bearings it was a miracle that the engine was not shot
I have heard this many many times on J-B Weld. I have tried it at least a half-dozen times on various different projects. I have to be honest, it is failed me every time. I don't know if I'm just not holding my mouth right or what. I try to like it. But, it just won't let me.
+Rosa String Works huh, that's really odd. It's never let me down. I've even made whole pistons out of it. What were some things that you tried it on but it failed you?
The tensioner sometimes without warning freeze up and you hear screaming in front as the serpentine belt does its thing
Usually here in germany you replace the waterpump every time you change your timing belt. I dont know if you also do that in the states too.
computec1993 Yes...my dad also changes the water pump with the timing belt...from Romania :)
If you want to know if your coolant pump is running you can remove the radiator cap and rev the engine, the fluid level will drop.
Hmm well VW's don't have radiator caps. The only cap is on the reservoir which is part of the loop unlike most cars. So you might be able to see a small drop, but I don't think there would be much of one.
Yes, it probably wont work on most modern cars, more of a "did you know"
Makerj101 in the VW you can see a jet of water coming in to the expansion tank that will tell you that your pump is working or take the cap off and take the hose off the side of the tank and see if water is being pumped to the tank.
Obviously don't take your cap or the pipe off when it's too hot.
it happened with our 2009 passat b6 too, such a shame they didnt fix it...it always went in limp mode because that one has two water pumps, one worked fine...but it couldnt keep up...
we didnt know what was the problem, the water didnt owerheat and the mechanic didn't see it either...and when they changed the distribution and shit they saw it...
Why would it have two water pumps? I've never heard of that before. Good thing that they figured it out and fixed the right thing in the end.
The drive pulley on the pump grinding into the housing may have been a failing bearing. Happened to a friend of mine on a Hyundai, it broke the timing belt and destroyed the head because the water pump bearing gave up.
How did I miss this new video as well?
I'm thinking about changing the tensioner or sneezing change the tensioner
That as almost as dangerous as Cody's hand pump. Still awesome. I have a 1970 ford f-100 and the carb leaks gas, still runs good. I also have a 1980 ford f-250 that is used for plowing and the throttle body sensor is broken so it constantly runs high. Cant fix it because its rusted so theres nothing to attach it to.
+Victor Fiori I gotta see this Cody's hand pump!? Cody as in Cody's Lab? "It just leaks a little gas," as it goes up in flames lol
yes Cody's Lab
Hahaha I found the video! That's awesome!! I had not seen that video before. Good to know that is a possible thing to do. Thanks for telling me about that!
Good thing you could get through the thermostat hole. Would hate to see trying to get the water pump out under that tarp!
The pulley was grinding into the castings because the waterpump bearing was kaputt. I always change my water pump at about 60k km to avoid that happening, although it doesn't show signs of wear. I do this because when i bought the car the owner told me he has changed the timing belt kit, and assumed he changed the water pump aswell, but he didn't. The water pump shaft was so tilted that threw my timing belt off the pulley and wrecked the engine. The timing belt was indeed brand new..
the water pump spins the same speed as the crankshaft. when you do the tim in ng belt you'll notice it's pulley is the same size as the crank pulley
I'm thinking of doing up a Ford soon
I used JB Weld to repair a hole in my transmission and it held for about a year and a half till the car finally died.
The alcohol you used to clean it with may cause the plastic little part to deteriorate.
You can use one of those cake frosting appliers to apply the JB Weld at an angle to reach in there better. Those cake appliers are not made to hold JB Weld for long periods of time so they are a 1 and done deal. Hope I was of some help.
Holy crap are you clumsy or what? At least you have the intelligence to do repairs like this. It will not hold forever so get it fixed properly when you can afford to.
it's my first day of summer and in the next school year I'll be a senior and I'm going to take a wielding class
next year
Great repair! Though, you said the car had 180K miles on it? As far as I know, most of the times the water pump gets replaced when changing the timing belt right? So the previous timing belt change that didn't happen? The pump is original, so you really can't fault the pump. Plastic would be fine for the advertised lifespan for the pump, if metal is not necessary, they just use plastic I guess. Good thing it's fixed and has new belt and pump now! Don't want your belt to snap..
the engine running indicator made me think of ravioli ravioli give me the formuloli
When you own a huge factory that produces like super science and teleporting warp engines and stuff, can i have a job?
Try casting the impeller out of aluminum.
The bigger the gob the better the job. ;-)
Maybe the bearing failed, the shaft got hot, and that cracked the plastic?
I don't see how the pulley can grind into the casting if all is well with the bearing...
That sounds very plausible. I'll have to take it apart and see what the bearing looks like. Still the cracks tho. I'd think the plastic would melt.
Tho it is bathed in coolant sooo....
Maybe it is some thermoset plastic that doesn't melt, given how brittle it is? I've seen cracking like that in plastic gears on metal hubs, looked like the plastic had shrunk, but it was much more ancient stuff.
Anyway, I think with the horror stories about seized up water pumps shredding the timing belt, and causing the pistons and valves to collide you were lucky.
Also, that you could even access the pump water-side from the thermostat hole was kinda neat.
+stefantrethan probably something like that. It feels like it has a ton of glass in the plastic. I think adding glass filter increases the temperature resistance. Yeah I was pretty darn lucky lol
on my mk4 golf ive had my waterpump bearing fail and actually break into peaces so the pulley wobbled around and the belt almost flew off... luckily it didnt and the engine is still fine it would be a shame if it broke it only has 80k km on it :D
Pretty cool fix kid. But I'm pretty sure you would have gotten home on the 2 hour trip by simply removing the thermostat alone. Releasing the pressure cap would also help some.. Then you could have fixed it in a nice dry spot.
dude... dont take the thermostat out!... what l do is just remove the center or drill in hole in it.. you need a restriction to slow flow through radiator... well that's what l learned the hard way...
melt down all the parts n make something new with it.. then at least it wont be rattling around in the trunk
Hahaha good idea! Most of the base is good quality aluminium so I will do that! Thanks!
I hate engines with timing belt water pumps. Timing belts too for that matter...
Why not just replace the pump?
Lol BMWs water pump isn't even driven off of the engine. It has an electric pump. BMWs are immediately better than all other cars. Definitely not a bias opinion.
Coolant aint supposed to be red...
+Carter Wall VW coolant is. Look up G12 coolant. If you put general purpose green coolant in a VW it'll eat a lot of rubber seals and plastic pieces. Being a German made car they make things differently than US cars.
Makerj101 ah, my bad. Thanks for the new info though
Dex-cool is red too. Newer Mopar coolant is orange.
I found your problem. You're driving a VW Golf.
Sorry, Top Gear fan in me couldn't resist.
LOL "it would be more expensive to ensure a pencil sharpener" czcams.com/video/3VwgvIqXg3A/video.html
oh cmon man buy new one. its probably 5 bucks...
I did replace it with a new one. The one with the metal impeller! :D I just had to get my car home first where I had most of my tools.
i also have vw like yours and i have replaced 2 pumps with plastic impellers(3rd one was metal). IDK who thought that plastic is good material for impeller...
+filippance yeah IDK. Some German engineers I guess. It's rocking a metal impeller now. So I shouldn't have any issues for a long time!