I do car work myself when it makes sense and is cost effective. I got the idea from reading other posts here that replacing a water pump on this car is not a novice level job. If it takes a mechanic 6 hours then it would take me 3x longer which means I am without the car I use to get to work for at least 2 weeks (I can only work on th car on the weekends).

No matter who does the work, the question I asked in previous post is the same: when you replace the water pump on this car what other parts make sense to replace?

Jim