2nd Gen R56 Cooper S Most liked posts in thread: Water pump replacement

BTW: A Friggin' quart is not a unit of measurement... it is, by defnintion, the last quart to be added to a system to complete the service you are performing. Technically, your system will take 4.2 quarts of coolant + 1 Friggin' quart.

Why differentiate a Friggin' quart from a normal quart? Murphy's law necessitates that, no matter how well you plan, you will only have 4.2 quarts of coolant on-hand for a 5.2 quart job when it comes time to refill your coolant system. Then you have to get to the parts store to buy a Friggin' quart of coolant.

A Friggin' quart can be replaced with a GDMFriggin' quart if and only if:

1. It is 6:59pm when you discover the need for a Friggin' quart and your parts shop closes at 7pm.
2. You bought more than enough coolant for the job, but someone 'borrowed' some, so that you no longer have enough. You have no other transportation to get to the parts shop and you have to walk (or borrow a bike from the 7 year-old next door).
3. You walk 3 miles to the parts shop and it is closed for Arbor Day (or some other minor holiday)
4. You need only 1 Friggin' quart, but the fluid you need is only sold in a 50 quart drum.

 

Drain the cooling system.
Place the friction wheel in service position by pulling the strap all the way out.
Remove coolant pump pulley fasteners, then remove the pulley.
Remove the friction wheel.
Remove the pump fasteners, and remove the pump from the engine block.
Install in reverse of removal.

Nothing about putting the car in "service Mode".

Warning about bleeding all the air out of the cooling system and making sure there are no air pockets or leaks. If issues bleeding then use the vacuum bleed method.

Also suggests checking the coolant pump pulley friction surface for wear.

Got this out of my brand new "library book".....

 

Don't put coolant in any 6 speed manual.....

 

The quick answer is.... all of them...

The slow answer is...... 5.2 liters (including the heater)....


Eurps..... you asked for "Friggin Quarts"..... Don't know, but US quarts would be 5.49477869.... Including the heater....

View attachment MINI_JCW.pdf

 

^^^ Depends how far you take it out, 5.512 or 5.495..... closenuferme.....

 

Friggin' Bolt (definition #1) = A bolt that you have recently dropped. It is always trapped somewhere in the engine bay and is 1mm deeper than your finger length. The bolt is also non-magnetic, so that fancy new magnetic telescoping bolt retrieval gadget you got for Christmas last year won't work.

Friggin' Bolt (definition #2) = The last bolt of 100+ stubborn bolts that you have to remove to perform a maintenance task. While all of the other bolts were in good shape, the Friggin' bolt is simultaneously rusted, cross-threaded and the head is so rounded over that it now looks like a rivet. It is also made of a metal alloy that is several degrees harder than what were, until 10 minutes ago, your best drill bits and the cool new bolt extractor kit that you got for Christmas last year. This alloy is also impervious to all penetrating oils, break-free sprays and thermal treatments. The only thing that can remove this bolt, after 3 hours of your best efforts, is the 7 year-old little girl who lives next door, who will somehow remove it using a plastic toy hammer and screwdriver set from Fisher Price. Note: The 7 year-old removal technique will only work when in the presence of at least 20 of your closest friends who will never let you live it down, your worst enemy who is filming the experience to post on YouTube or the 18 year-old hottie who has been giving you the eye for the past few minutes and who now thinks that you are the girliest of girlie-men.

Friggin' Socket = You recently spent $12,000 with Snap-on, buying a complete socket set covering all metric and SAE bolt sizes from 1mm to 2,000mm, except the 22mm socket, which has been on backorder for the past 2 years. You are now 1 bolt away from completing your task and you need that Friggin' 22mm socket.

 

^ So Friggin' true.... :mad2:

 

Is that different from a "Frikken" quart?

Out here in the midwest, that's what they call them....

:biggrin5:

and what's this about a frikken friction wheel that you have to pull your belt out and use it on it?

 

On the r53, it is a huge PITA to get to the water pump... Remove bumper.... Drain coolant...remove radiator/AC condenser... Remove Intercooler... Remove Alternator... Remove drive belt... Remove supercharger... Replace water pump and reassemble. I think that it is a 6 book-hour job and a $110 water pump plus a few gaskets and new coolant.

 

Doesn't look as bad as the R53. On the 1st gen cars you had to remove a bunch of stuff and make sure you seated the O-rings perfectly, but the R56 looks more like a conventional water pump and thermostat that are bolted onto the block.

 

How Many Quarts?

:cornut: Since you guys did this back in 2011 but, I didn't see the thread until now and I can't find the info in our libraries 'Owners Manual'; how many qts of coolant does an 08 R56 MCS/JCW 6spd man hold(Please)?

Jason

 

:cornut: THANKS!(it was funny though) Now how many friggin quarts of coolant does it hold?

Jason

 

:cornut: Thanks MM and for the laugh also.

Jason

Addendum: so 5.2 liters @ 1.06qts/liter = 5.512 qts

 

Lol, well put.

 

Haha...
"Friggin Quart" will now, as of today, be a part of my verbal repertoire.....

 

And the same can be said for oil.......:biggrin5: