Leaky pump

[rwatford]

This my first of many post so you guys play nice! Just noticed my pump is leaking in the area where the head meets the pump body. ( I think those are the correct terms) I've read the links on re-sealing the pump and looked at the removal link as well as the Youtube video link. I'm not sure I want to tackle this. I'm a decent mechanic but I don't have the special tools mentioned in the link and timing everything up looks pretty tedious. Any ideas? A member near Atlanta maybe that wants to charge to do this?... or maybe a local shop that's fair? Called one guy and he won't go into a pump only replace it. Rougly $700 to rebuild mine or $1300 for a re-man unit and that DOES NOT include labor! Can't afford that.

[gear jammer 91"]

My pump had a slow leak between the injector head ( the part the injector lines are bolted to ) and the pump body. I was actually able to slightly tighten the bolts that hold it on and stop the leak. That was almost two years ago. I would try that first, but I think I got real lucky that, that actually worked.

[fasttalker83]

If you like you can send it to my shop for 485.00 and I can fix your leaky problem and put it on the test bench-and will do the same work that the guy was going to do for 700.00 the seal between the head and the housing is common ive done a 93 and a 91 with the same problem one was our truck and another for a customer or I can send you a rebuild kit with the seal for 40.00 and you can take a swing...(theres alot of VE manuals floating around here that can help)

[rwatford]

I'll try and tighten the bolts today and see if that helps. Thanks for the offer to ship but you're in Illinois and the whole problem is I don'k know if I want to tackle removing the pump myself. I would need someone in the Atlanta area to remove, reseal, and replace the pump.

[rwatford]

Well tried to tighten the bolts and that didn't help. They were already tight. I checked on the speciality tools the video metntions and they will run roughly $180!