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Old 01-03-2020, 04:24 AM   #19
Starter986
1998 Boxster Silver/Red
 
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Originally Posted by Geof3 View Post
The WP isn’t particularly bad to change. The upper t-stat housing bolts will create a few sentence enhancers. You WILL spill coolant, you WILL wear some coolant at some point as well. As others have said, purging the system of air as defined in the manual is the biggest PITA of the whole job... doing a WP is good pre-Zen work for when you have to do the alternator...
I had my alternator rebuilt a couple months ago. Removing it was a piece of cake. reinstalling it presented a challenge. The water pump I replaced myself and found it more time consuming that the alternator (jacking the car... replacing the MM at the same time).

I'd rather change out the water pump.
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