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Old Dec 31, 2002 | 10:11 PM
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I,m a new guy so be nice. I get to maintain my wife's 94 convert. She drives it, I fix it. So today she wants to go shopping and her pride and joy won't start. Check around and find the water pump leaking. Great! Now I need a water pump and a optispark. Can you buy these things aftermarket or do the dealers get to kill you all by themselves? $300 or so for a dealer waterpump and I'm afraid to check on the electrics. Any chance of cleaning up the optispark and having it work? Thanks for any help ya'll can give. john :cry
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Old Dec 31, 2002 | 10:18 PM
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Try calling Jeff Kopp. He can probably get you the opti and waterpump for around $500 total.


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Old Dec 31, 2002 | 10:37 PM
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Try calling Jeff Kopp. He can probably get you the opti and waterpump for around $500 total.


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Old Dec 31, 2002 | 10:44 PM
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Thanks for the number for jeff. Ill give him acall after the 1st and then wait untill it gets real cold to fix it. I love working outside in the winter.
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Old Jan 1, 2003 | 09:16 AM
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If your opti has not gone out yet....good for you...just replace the H20 pump....Thats what I did with mine and I have not had any problems :thumbs:
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Old Jan 1, 2003 | 09:33 AM
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Are you sure that your opti is gone? Any codes? No sense replacing the opti if that isn't the problem.
I just replaced both my opti and water pump last month. I got the parts from Jeff and it ran about $476 with shipping.
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