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Water pump - gasket or RTV?

Discussion in 'Technical Chat' started by Enigmaaron, Aug 5, 2011.

  1. Aug 5, 2011 at 2:30 PM
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    Enigmaaron

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    Changing my timing belt tomorrow and doing the water pump (and everything else in there) at the same time. The water pump came with a gasket (see below). All the directions I'm reading up on say to use RTV. Sounds like Toyota switched to a gasket towards the end of the 1st gens lifetime :confused:

    Seems like the gasket would be a hell of a lot easier (I know I would get RTV all over the place). Anyone have opinions?

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  2. Aug 5, 2011 at 2:33 PM
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    horwitzs

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    I agree. If you have a gasket then I don't know why you'd bother with RTV.
     
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    you can put a little RTV on the gasket to hold it in place while you install the water pump
     
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    rub a super light coat of gray rtv on the block and water pump super light and use the gasket
     
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    Thanks for the tips guys. When I pulled it all apart I found my truck had the same metal/rubber gasket as the one I got with the replacement in the pic above. There wasn't any RTV on in there so I decided to just put it back the way it was without any RTV. I held a couple of bolts through the water pump as I put it on to hold the gasket in place.
     
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    Yeah my 2001 had no gasket, just RTV. I like the gasket better.
     
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    Damn. Pulling my timing belt and water pump at this same moment. Good luck with yours!
     
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    That gasket has it's own rubber seal on the paper gasket. No RTV is required or needed. A good rule, like you already found, is to put on what was taken off; that only applies to known factory parts.
     
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    you buy an oem water pump?
     
  10. Aug 21, 2011 at 4:13 AM
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    It was an Aisin water pump. Don't know if that's OEM or not.
     
  11. Aug 21, 2011 at 10:40 AM
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    no trouble so far working good?
     
  12. Sep 26, 2011 at 5:13 PM
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    Just noticed I never responded to this. A little late, lol. But I'm over 2000 miles since the change and everything's running good.
     
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    For the gasket shown, do not use rtv: it is designed to go on clean and dry. I recommend a light wire wheeling of metal surfaces [use a brass brush] if there is a fair amount of aluminum corrosion. If you have heavy pitting and surfaces don't seal with this new gasket, THEN chuck this gasket/go back to plain paper and use rtv to fill the voids - they are about 3 bucks, so all you lost is time . Be sure to let system sit dry overnight to allow curing time before putting coolant back in the engine.
     

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