I getting some work done to my like replacing the timing cover gasket, oil pan gasket and the water pump gasket...the mechanic I talked to said I need to replace this as well; my thing is the water pump is fine..should I take his advice?
well, since they gotta take all that crap off to change the gasket, I would, it's cheap insurance..
What a better time to do it unless of course you are selling it this month. Mechanic is right in saving you money in the future.
some vehicles have diverse designs. The water pump on my ninety six Century would have been finished in a rely of minutes. the place as some are plenty deeper in the engine. frequently, to alter a water pump like that's rather plenty one greater step than changing the timing belt. for this reason it quite is mostly a great theory to do them the two at as quickly as.
When asking questions of this type, include the year make and model of the car. There's no reason on earth to replace a water-pump when all you need are the mating gaskets from pump to cylinder head or heads. Water-pumps don't have to be replaced until the weep-hole leeks coolant under the input shaft. Of all the things you had done, the water-pump is the first and easiest thing to be removed and replaced when and if the time comes.
Since we don't know what kind of car/engine you have, there are really too many variables for anyone to give you a good answer. You would want to take into account things like; How hard is it to replace the water pump, labor/time wise? How much does a new water pump cost, for the part itself? Is the water pump driven by the timing belt, and is it an interference-fit engine? If the water pump were very expensive, but easy to replace, and isn't driven by the belt on an interference-fit engine, then there would be very little risk in not replacing it for the now vs later cost savings. But if the water pump were very cheap, hard to replace, and is driven by the belt on an interference-fit engine, then it would not only be cheaper to do it now, but you wouldn't have to worry about a bad pump snapping the timing belt, and wrecking your engine from the valves hitting the pistons, warping or even cracking the cylinder head, and so forth. In the end, the decision is up to you, but these are the kinds of factors you would want to take into account when making this decision.
