Yeh it does, but if he has the old plastic one in its could be breaking up like what mine done, so the temp only really went up when driving fast, driving slow was ok, but when it did go I could let the car heat up from cold all was fine untill I started revving her then the temp shot right up meaning the water pump was a gonner, dropped the engine took the water pump out and when I done that the bit that spins the water round was still in my block, was very lucky to just put my fingers in and pull it out.