Hi, I have a leaking plastic water connecting hose (the rigid plastic one that runs between the water pump and the thermostat housing). I cannot see how the hose attaches to the water pump. Do I need to remove the water pump in order to be able to replace the hose?

Any help will be much appreciated!

You don't have to remove the waterpump. The plastic hose will 99% sure also have a quickcoupling on the other side of the hose and be connected somewhere to the backside of the engine. (99% of the hard plastic hoses, coolant and fuel, have quick couplings)

The best way to see will most probably be to get underneath the car so you can see behind the engine, have a bright torch at hand and i think it will be clear which one it is then. Maybe you need a little mirror but it's just a case of following the plastic hose. From above it's impossible to see or feel if you don't know which one it is.

Never had remove this hose yet but as for just about anything on this engine, everything is cramped together on a very tight space and "luckily" all the hoses are black and running behind the engine at the same spot so you have to be some sort of McGyver to get to it. Don't know why Ford did it this way, they must hate their mechanics for building it like this.

Thanks Arjen.

It is indeed just a push fit with a rubber o-ring. Pulled it hard and it came out!

Regards

Paul

Thanks Arjen.

It is indeed just a push fit with a rubber o-ring. Pulled it hard and it came out!

Regards

Paul

hi

was there a leak from this pipe?

I have fusion 1.4tdci with a coolant leak somewhere around the thermostat housing - the pipes coming from the housing are wet and it runs down onto the exhaust

Not sure if the leak is the thermo housing or one of these plastic pipes

There are 2 of these pipes at the back of the engine - one from housing to water pump I think and the other is the bypass hose?

I am thinking of putting on a new thermostat housing to cure the leak hopefully. Do the plastic pipes need new seals or rings fitted?