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Dr. Claw
The waterpump just went out on my 96 S600 with 105k miles. Not bad. Fortunately for me I was a 1/2 block from the house. I'm looking up parts and I need to replace everything and have found all but the tensioner pully. My questions are:

1) Are the pullys for the idler and tensioner the same?

2) When replacing the thermostat, do I have to replace the housing too?

3) Do you reccommend replacing the belt tensioner mechanism too?

Thank you for your input.
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Dr. Claw
I checked the tensioner spring and it's strong as an ox. But who sells the tensioner pullys other than the dealers? I couldn't find them on RockAuto, Bimmerspecialists, or RMEuropean.

Merc600sec, to answer your question, my car was making a funny noise from the waterpump area, and the dealer checked it and said that wp was gona eventually need to be replaced. Also when I checked under the hood you could see some belt debris on the water pump pully.
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Merc600sec said:
then thats a belt replacement first.. not a pump... the idler pully and the tensioner pully and the water pump you can check when you have the belt off...
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My S600 took off the belt it's self. I tried turning the water pump pully and I couldn't get it to turn.
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Brett San Diego said:
I had the same thing happen at about the same distance from home. We were lucky. Have you come across this, yet?

V12 Uber Alles, Water Pump and Thermostat Replacement in a W140 Mercedes Benz, article by Brett Allison

I think the tensioner pulley is a dealership only item. I didn't replace my tensioner, just the pulley. I think the thermostat is integral to the housing. I didn't study it enough to see if the thermostat could be removed easily. Just replace the whole thing and be done with it.

Brett
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Thanks for the info. The pully spins fine but I'm gone replace it anyways this spring before I take the S600 on a road trip.
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First of all I gota say, Merc600sec..... it was the water pump that went!

Here are the pics om my old and new water pump. The defective one it the $300+ Laso pump. My new one is a A! cardone which had the factory part number and the Mercedes star on it. Plus build and material quality in my opinion. The job took 6 hours to compete. I'm just glad I have my S600 back.


















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The other thing is that I had to fight to get the fan and water pump pully off the stupid Laso pump, but they fit like a glove on the A1 Cardone.




Laso just roped my money out of my wallet. F%@k em!
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I got all the pieces, nothing inside the block. I just never seen that before. Now that is over I'm gona give my S600 a good detail and take it somewhere to get the engine steam cleaned.
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