99 Ranger 4 cyl. coolant leaking near water pump

sure its worth doing yourself. You may want to also consider looking for any freeze plugs which may be corroded through if you can't find the leak on the logical suspects. If the water pump has never been changed, sounds like you wont be wasting your money by changing it even if its not at fault.

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I don't know if this helps, but I had a 90 mustang that had coolant leaking from the water pump. I am comparing these, because the mustang also had the 2.3L 4cyl. It turned out to be just the seal between the water pump and the engine that was leaking, but since a new pump was only $12 and I had to take the old one off to replace the seal, I just replaced the pump at the same time. I don't normally do a lot of work on my cars, but this only took me a half hour and the only tool I needed was a socket. This car had 180,000 miles and i was just driving into the ground to avoid putting too many miles on my new car (I drive