For the last week and a half I have been remodeling the kitchen, a project that the wife asked me to do for about 9 months now.
Three days ago I started up the truck to move it out of the way and I heard some intermittent noises coming out from the front of the engine. I had to put the kitchen on hold to figure out what was going on with the truck. I took the belt off and started the engine and the noise was gone. Good news.
Alternator bearings sounded really really dry so I ordered an alternator, but the alternator noise was somewhat different than the other noise I headed. So I replaced the alternator in like 30 minutes, but the original noise was still there. I ended up taking the belt back off and the fan and turning the water pump by hand made all kind of grinding noises and catching here and there. Bad water pump.
Removed everything off from the front of the engine, removed the water pump and it was really wobbly, wonder how it didnt leak already. So yesterday I took my old trusty sprinter on a 200 mile parts run and collected all the parts needed to put my truck back together. Between 2 dealers I was able to find all the parts except a hose that will be in tomorrow.
Hope I will be ready to get back on the road on Monday. I need a vacation after all this work. Lol.
On a side note, what a sweet running vehicle my sprinter is, even at 780k miles.
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