{"id":11121,"date":"2019-01-31T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/?p=11121"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T19:41:57","slug":"water-pump-and-water-pump-housing-replacements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=11121","title":{"rendered":"Water Pump and Water Pump Housing Replacements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some water pumps may have been replaced when the actual failure was the water pump housing on some 2016-2019 Encore, Cruze, Malibu, Spark, Volt, and 2018-2019 Equinox and Terrain models equipped with engine RPOs LE2, LFV, LV7, L3A, and LYX. New water pumps are being returned to the Warranty Parts Center with the old water pump housing installed. These conditions may be due to the description of the parts in the Electronic Parts Catalog (EPC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Water Pump Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the water pump requires replacement for a noise, leak or poor coolant flow, refer to \u201cHousing w\/PMP\u201d in the EPC. The water pump housing is a separate component. (Fig. 19)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11109\" src=\"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F19-water-pump-housing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F19-water-pump-housing.jpg 740w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F19-water-pump-housing-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F19-water-pump-housing-85x55.jpg 85w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F19-water-pump-housing-200x130.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><strong>Fig. 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Water Pump<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the water pump requires replacement for a crack or leak, refer to \u201cPump, Wat\u201d in the EPC. The water pump housing comes pre-installed on the water pump as an assembly. (Fig. 20)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11110\" src=\"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F20-water-pump-assembly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F20-water-pump-assembly.jpg 740w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F20-water-pump-assembly-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F20-water-pump-assembly-85x55.jpg 85w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/F20-water-pump-assembly-200x130.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><strong>Fig. 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, be sure to use the correct labor code when replacing the water pump housing or the water pump. These are different codes and using the incorrect code could result in a debit of the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Refer to Bulletin #18-NA-335 for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Thanks to Steve Bruder<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some water pumps may have been replaced when the actual failure was the water pump housing on some 2016-2019 Encore, Cruze, Malibu, Spark, Volt, and 2018-2019 Equinox and Terrain models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11122,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions\/11122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}