[masraum]

Originally Posted by Dansvan

Rant is pointless. Water pump isn’t driven by water pump
on those and cannot cause interference issues when it fails therefore no need to replace during a timing belt job.

It looks like some Kia Spectras had the water pump behind the timing belt. If that's still the case, then it seems like it would make sense to replace "while you're in there." I think this video is for 2000-2004. No idea what year the car is in the OP



I think that's the main goal of most "while you're in there" water pump replacements. If the standard is that it takes hours to get to the water pump, and the same stuff has to come off to get to the timing belt, then you may as well not pay for the the hours twice. How much would it suck to pay $1200 to do the timing belt, maybe $3-400 of that is getting to the thing, and then in 5k or 10k miles have to pay several hundred dollars to do the water pump replacement, with a large portion of the charge being to take the same crap off that was required by the timing belt and making sure that the timing is still on.