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Title: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: taz_man440 on November 21, 2015, 08:50:10 AM
Has anyone had the pleasure of having to change a water pump on a Newer model Hemi??  This one got sick & died this morning 2 miles from the house @ 2 am after driving 2 hours to a playoff football game.   Looks easy enough but @ a little over $200 just for the pump, can't afford any unforseen problems..
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: taz_man440 on November 21, 2015, 07:12:05 PM
Got home from work & dove in feet first... had the lil critter off in maybe 45 minutes after finding all the different metric / standard sizes...  The hardest part is actually tracking a new one down...
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: SixGun on November 21, 2015, 07:37:22 PM
Anything special on it to justify 2 bills?
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: taz_man440 on November 21, 2015, 08:17:28 PM
Plastic impeller, not even good enough to have a core charge....    What ticks me off it the vehicle has less that 64,000 miles on it...  I did find a new one for $144.00   Lifetime warranty...
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: rjtx667 on November 21, 2015, 10:13:48 PM
my 03 Durango with the 4.7 went out about 80k miles. since I planned on keeping it I paid extra to get another oem. it failed within 30k miles. went with after marking and still going strong almost 100k miles later.


go fig


glad you got yours going
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: taz_man440 on November 22, 2015, 08:28:09 AM
Hopefully will get the pump today after work....  Should go back together easy....
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: taz_man440 on November 22, 2015, 11:36:50 PM
Got the new pump & got it installed tonight.  Sure takes a while to get the air out of the system....  On a positive note, Oreilly's pump actually has a metal impeller compared to the bad pumps plastic one...
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: workgoats on November 23, 2015, 07:42:36 AM
While we were at a playoff game the grand daughter's Grand Cherokee developed a antifreeze leak at a rear freeze plug.  I just loaned out the transmission jack to Nick.  I guess it might really be his, can't remember...
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: taz_man440 on November 23, 2015, 09:13:40 AM
It's always something....   
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: workgoats on November 23, 2015, 07:43:12 PM
Turned out to be an expansion plug (rubber), installed in the last hole on the driver side, water ran down the pan and looked like it was coming from the rear.  We will probably put another rubber plug in it and hope it lasts until we do an overhaul next summer.

Only was to put a real plug in it is to pull both manifolds.
Title: Re: Water pump 2012 Dodge Durango
Post by: taz_man440 on November 23, 2015, 10:00:48 PM
I had 4 of those rubber expansion plugs in the silver dodge truck I wheeled @ General Sams years ago...  Had a hard freeze while I was working on it & I even drained the radiator, but the block just pushed out the freeze plugs as they were designed to do...  I wasn't about to pull the engine so those worked great for me...